Leclerc led every lap of t🎃he British GP after title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen collided and appeared to be on course to record Ferrari’s first win in two years until he was overtaken by a recovering Hamilton three laps from the end.

Given the slow-speed strengths of Ferrari’s 2021 car, which helped Leclerc secure surprise pole positions in Monaco and Baku, 🌳the Scuderia has been tipped to mix it up w♛ith Red Bull and Mercedes once again at this weekend’s race at the Hungaroring.

But Leclerc has downplayed Ferrari’s prospects in Budapest despite its near-miss at Silverstone last time𒁏 out.

“It’s g🐻ood to be optimists and we alꦉl want to be optimists after such a good performance in the last three races but on the other hand, we also need to be realistic,” Leclerc said.

“Of course it’s good and we are in a good mood but I fe✅el like goiꦇng for the win in Budapest might be a bit optimistic.

“Real𝕴istically, I would be happy if we are just behind t♔he two top teams.”

Teammate Carlos Sainz echoed Leclerc’s view, adding that the Hungarori🎉ng cannot be categorised as purely being a slow-speed circuit with the downforce levels produced by the current generation of F1 cars.

“Budapest recently has become recently a medium-to-high-speed 🙈track in these cars,” he🤡 explained.

“If yo💧u look at Monaco and Baku, there are several low-speed corners. Budapest now with these crazily high downforce cars, you have a middle sect🐬or that you are in fourth, fifth gear all the time.

“So it’s not a pure low-speed track aꦓnymore like it used to be🃏 in the past. I don’t think it’s going to be such a good track for us, but I do think that is a great opportunity to be right behind Red Bull and Mercedes.”