Leclerc started on the back row of the grid at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve after taking on new engine components due to his Ferrari power unit failure🎉 in Baku.

Despite making significant prog🧜ress through the field, Leclerc’s race was compromised when he got stuck behind Alpine♔’s Esteban Ocon.

Leclerc managed to overtake both Alpines to ꦏcome home in fifth after the Safety Car period, completing a solid 🔴recovery drive in Montreal.

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With Verstappen taking his sixth win of the season, Leclerc is now 49 points behind going into July’s British G♍rand Prix.

Even with the gap so large, Leclerc rema♌ins confident he can turn it around.

“Yes, yes. I think reliability seems to be a concern for everyone this season,” Lec♊lerc said when asked if he could catch Verstap🎶pen.

“If we fix our reliabilit🥂y the performance is there to come back so already from Silverstone we will try to get a f🅺ew points back.”

Reflecting on the 70-lap Canadian GP, Leclerc admitted he had to be patient when fighting in ✅the🍷 midfield.

“I think unfortunately with the pit stop it put us a bit in a bad situation as we cleared the DRS train then got another DRS train and ꧅it cost me a bit at the end,” Leclerc added.

“Overall it was a race I had to be patient, at the beginning I was stuck in a DRS train then I was stuck behind Esteban who had new tyres and was very good at Turn 10, whenever I had🌌 free air I think pace was really good but it’s like this.”

Sainz’s best race of the year

On the other side of t𒈔he Ferrari 👍garage, Carlos Sainz enjoyed his best race of the year.

While he miss💯ed out yet again on his maiden F1 victory, he pushed Max Ve𝔉rstappen all the way.

On fresher hard tyres following the Safety Car, Sainz remained in DRS range of his former teammate, but ꧑couldn’t get through.

Sainz felt that 💯he was the fastest car on track - something that h♛asn’t been the case at any point this season, indicating that he’s made great progress.

“As I said, I left everything out there,” Sainz said. “But compared to a Red Bull today, we were quicker, I thin꧟k the whole race. First time the season that I think I can say that I was fastest man on track, which gives me some confidence and hope for the next races. 

“But two or three-tenths is not enough to 🅘pass a Red Bull, you need more like five, six-tenths of pace delta if you really want to have any chance of passing Max.”