Charles Leclerc conceded he does not know where his electrifying pace came from as he stormed to a brilliant fourth place on the grid during qualifying for♎ Formula 1⛦’s Eifel Grand Prix.

Leclerc looked fa൲st throughout final practice on Saturday morning and translated that form into qualifying at the ꦜNurburgring as he secured a second-row starting position with a late effort to snatch P4.

The Monegasque said he was left “quite surprised” by the improvem🔥ent from his upgraded Ferrari SF1000.

Asked where he felꦗt the pace had come fro👍m, Leclerc told Sky: “I don’t really know.

“I’m quite surpris🎃ed, epecially with this weather, I expected to strugg♉le in the cold weather.

“From the beginning of the season, we are struggling to make [the tyres] work any time it is cold. Today, it 🥃seems it has worked out for us.

“I’m very🐟 happy, 🍷very happy with my last lap. I put everything together and P4 is great.”

Ferrari has brought further upgrades to Germany after introducing some successful minor new parts in Russia, and Leclerc was pleased to 🅰report they are working as expected.

“There ♎were upgrades this weekend that worked in th🍨e proper way,” he explained.

“We are not trying to find an update that is giving🔜 a huge amount of lap time, just small differences every weekend which for now is working well.

“Every time we are bringing something on the car, it’s working, which was not the case in the past. This is very important and it helps us to build a solid base🅺 for the car.”

Leclerc could not explain his sup🙈erior pace advantage over Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel, who was only abl🐷e to qualify 11th, seven-tenths further back.

“In the first sector I was quite competitive,”𒁃 he said. “But Seb is a four-time world champion and I’m pretty sure that he will come back where he deserves to be.

“At the moment I am focusing on myself, I’m trying to push myself as much as possible when I’m inside the car and it’s worꦚking pretty well fo🐼r me.”

And Leclerc is expecting a “very interesting” race on Sunday as drivers prepare to hea🌳d into the “unknown” given the lost running on Friday.

“It’s going to be a v🌠ery interesting race,” Leclerc said. “We all go a bit int🅺o the unknown.

“We haven’t done any high-fuel runs yet, so it’s going to be important to take care of those tyres and try anticipate as much as possible which axle will degrade first. This is wher♎e I will focus tomorrow.”