Ferrari nonetheless puzzled by fluctuations in type as staff readies Monza improve · RaceFans

Charles Leclerc is hopeful Ferrari will present it’s got on high of the issues which have dogged it in latest races when it introduces an improve for its SF-24 this weekend.

Ferrari is bringing the subsequent step for its automotive in time for its house occasion at Monza. The staff encountered issues with the brand new flooring it launched in its earlier house spherical at Imola, and spent a number of rounds targeted on fixing them, however Leclerc believes they’re making progress now.

“We’ve had three or 4 races, 4 races in the past, the place we have been experimenting rather a lot to attempt to perceive what have been the basic problems with our automotive for the event, medium-term,” Leclerc defined. “We’ve acquired an improve coming very quickly.

“Now I can say usually because Fred [Vasseur, team principal] mentioned it, so will probably be in Monza. And that, I hope, will assist us and assist us shut the hole.”

Leclerc completed third for the second race in a row at Zandvoort final weekend, which gave him some encouragement about Ferrari’s competitiveness.

“Till the upgrades, I at all times mentioned that the precedence for us was simply to do a injury limitation,” he mentioned after Sunday’s race. “Right now, we have been focusing on P6. Realistically, I feel on paper, that’s what we have been preventing for.

“Nevertheless, after three, 4 laps, the tempo was there. And we [finished] P3, which is an efficient shock once more. Good factors. Nevertheless, now I simply hope that the improve helps us to do a step ahead.”

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He admitted he was stunned by the extent of the staff’s features within the race after qualifying virtually a second off pole-winner Lando Norris.

“I feel the most effective query can be to grasp why we have been 9 tenths off yesterday and out of the blue fairly sturdy as we speak,” mentioned Leclerc. “The automotive is strictly the identical.

“Yesterday, we’ve been struggling like loopy. Right now, we have been sturdy. And these are the form of issues that we’ve set to work on.

“I feel as a lot as we analyse each dangerous shock we’ve throughout a season, we additionally want to grasp after we do one thing good. For now, I don’t suppose as a staff we’ve the reason. So it’s an important end result. I’m actually completely happy to be standing on the rostrum, I feel it’s a extremely good shock. Nevertheless, we’ve acquired to grasp with a purpose to carry out extra typically at our greatest.”