Charles Leclerc highlighted Ferrari’s strength over the kerbs and bumps as a key factor behind their resurgence at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.

The Mona♕co weekend proved to be Leclerc and Ferrari’s strongest of the 2025 F1 season so far.

Leclerc qu♛alified and finished in second place, sc🍒oring Ferrari’s second podium of the season.

Leclerc was able to challenge 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris for the win, putting the McLaren driv𝓰er under immense pressure in the closing part of the race.

Heading into the weekend, Leclerc downplayed his chances because ꦅof the SF-25’s inherent weakness in low-speed corners.

While Ferrari were sti🍌ll weaker than McLaren in this area, the Scuderia’s ability to ride the kerbs and 🌱bumps worked in their favour.

Speaking in the FIA press conference after the race, Leclerc was ဣ“proud” ♉to come away with a big result given Ferrari’s disappointing campaign so far.

“I’m never re❀ally happy with second🍨 place,” Leclerc said. “Then if you do a step back and you look at our season, I think this is a very positive result for the whole team.

“Especially coming here, we had very low expectations, just because our low-speed performance has been ver꧃y bad all season. However, I think here, it’s a very specific track because there are a lot of bumps, a lot of kerb riding, and I think our car is pretty goo🍒d on that.

“That helped us to close the gap. So, yeah, I think we did a really good job, and 18 points plus the 10 of Lewis are💝 very v🅰aluable points for the situation we are in.

“On that, I think we𝕴 should be proud. Am I over the moon for a second place? Not really, but it’s been a very positive weekend anyway.”

Leclerc reflects on Norris fight

Leclerc got close to Norris on a number of occasions, particularly when the McLaren driver was stuck behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.

Leclerc admitted that he ‘thought all night’ about h🦩ow to g🥀et past Norris.

“It’s very difficult. Whe🦋n Max at the end was in front, I really believed in it un🐷til the very end,” he added.

“I thought about it all night, the two or three places where I could try something on Lando, and I was willing to take all the risks possible to try and get that win๊. But, unfortunately, these opportunities never came.

“Or at least I had maybe two or three laps where I was like, “OK, maybe I༒ go for it,” but Lando straight away saw those and defended very well. So I basically couldn’t really go and try something. At the end, there were no opportunities for me.”