168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc has admitted Ferrari are simply “not fast enough” to compete with their rivals at this stage of the 2025 F1 season.

Leclerc started second at the Bahrain❀ Grand Prix after a brilliant qualifying pe෴rformance, aided by a penalty for Mercedes’ George Russell,  but dropped to fourth in a challenging race on Sunday.

The Monegasque finished one place ahead of Ferrari teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton, but neither driver could match the quicker McLarens or Russell’s M♔ercedes over a grand prix distance.

Despite bringing their first significant upgrade package of the yea🅺r, Leclerc concluded that Ferra🌟ri are still lacking pace to their competitors.

“We are just not fast enougไh, that’s the summary,” Leclerc told Sky Sports F1. “We don▨’t have that pace in the car.

“Mercedes were quite a bit better in terms of degradation comp♒ared to us. The soft, we couldn’t keep them for long enough, 🅷but they could. So that was a surprise.

“The pace was just not there and it’s just vꦚery disappointing when I think you do everythingꦐ quite well, but it’s only P4.”

Where do Ferrari need to improve?

Speaking to media away from the TV pen, Leclerc outlined the key areas he feels Ferrari need to improve f✨ollowing a lacklustre start to the campaign.

"I think we just need more overall downforce, more grip," Leclerc s🌞aid.

“I think the balance - we are extraꦰcting the maximum out of 🤪the car at the moment, but there's just nothing more. I just need more grip to go faster around the corners.

"In qualifying, I still feel like we can hide that a little bit, doing a few tricks. But then once you are in the race, no gr♒ip is no grip. It'ꦇs more degradation, so it's a snowball effect once you are in the race. So it's a bit trickier in the race.

"Eventually꧟, I'm sure that we'll find our way - but how long before we do, I don't know.”

The result le🧜aves Ferrari fourth in the constructors’ championship on 57 points following four rounds.

Ferrar🎃i have at least closed the gap t🅺o third-placed Red Bull to 14 points.