Charles Leclerc notes big Ferrari change due to Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Haꩲmilton's Ferrari team highlights how team dynamic has changed

Leclerc, Hamilton
Leclerc, Hamilton

Charles Leclerc has noticed a change within Ferrari since 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton’s arrival.

The superstar signing of Hamilton hasn’t yet provided Ferrari with the blockbuster results they🐬 w🌃ill have hoped for.

Even Leclerc has struggled with𝔍 the SF-25 this season which has lagged behind the McLarens, Red Bull’s Max Ve🀅rstappen and Mercedes’ George Russell.

But Leclerc has noted a beh꧃ind-the-🦂scenes change in Ferrari’s ways of working caused by his new teammate.

“That’s why it’s sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚo interesting having Lewis join the team, coming frꦺom Mercedes,” Leclerc told Sky Sports.

“It’s a very diffꦦerent way of working, compared to Ferrari.

“It doesn’t mean we will necessarily take ev🅘erything out of it, but there🦩 are things that open our minds, in the way we were.

“Lewis arrived and gave his advice, his view, on certain situatioꦆ𒆙ns.

“We have different a𒅌pproaches but that’s the same for everyone in the paddock. It was interesting.”

'Mixed emotion' for Charles Leclerc when Lewis Hamilton won

Ferrari’s standout moment🍌 in F1 2025 so far has been Hamilton’s sprint♔ race victory at the Chinese Grand Prix.

That was a rare moment in 🌼the spotlight in an otherwise 😼underwhelming start to the campaign.

Leclerc concedes the diff🐈iculty of watching his big-name teammate strike the first meaningful blow.

“Mi🅠xed emotions yes of course,” he said about Hamilton’s sprint win in Ch♏ina.

“You are happy because you see the potential.

“The other part of you is not happy becau🌄se you wish you d🗹id a better job to achieve the win.

“It’s part of raci♑ng. It motivated me to come back later in qualifying and find something in the car, to turn the situat🌞ion around.”

Leclerc finished o🐎n the podium last weekend at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the first time either Ferrari driver has managed the feat in a long Sunday race this year.

Hamilton’s feedback has been self-critical about his a🐲daptation rather than complaining about the SꦡF-25 itself.

Leclerc has explained the challe♕nges of their car in the early rounds.

“We didn’t have the start of the season that we dreamt of, but w😼e are slowly getting back to it,” he said.

✃“At the beginning of the year, it was a very open balance. Very tricky on corner entry♛, quite a mid of mid-corner understeer.

“We are starting to fi𒅌nd solutions for the mid-corner understeer but it means we’ve got to drive with a trickier car.

“This is something I particularly like. In terms of bala♕nce, we ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚare in the sweet spot of the car.

“W𓂃hat we are missing is grip at low and medium speed. At high speed, it’s not bad.”

A raft of floor upgrades were introduced by Ferrari in Bahrai✅n, before rear wing updates were brought to Saudi Arabia.

Those tweakဣs delivered improved results but Ferrari are still short of where their expectation will be.

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