Charles Leclerc says Ferrari can extract extra efficiency from their automobile regardless of not introducing any upgrades at Silverstone this weekend.
Ferrari are the one crew of the present prime 5 within the constructors’ championship to not convey any new elements for his or her automobile for this weekend’s British Grand Prix.
Nonetheless, Leclerc insists that the crew can nonetheless extract extra velocity out of their automobile in its present specification, as soon as they work out how one can optimise it for the final set of upgrades they launched.
“We’re nonetheless attempting to work out the place we have to arrange the automobile with a view to maximise the potential of these upgrades,” Leclerc informed media together with RaceFans. “As a result of, as I’ve mentioned many occasions, the [performance] numbers that we have been anticipating from this improve is there.
“The improve is working the best way it needs to be, but it surely’s extra about the place you run the automobile to optimise these numbers that we see that for now, we haven’t fairly managed to do this. So we’re nonetheless engaged on that.”
Leclerc believes Ferrari have potential options to have the ability to squeeze the most effective out of their up to date automobile sooner somewhat than later.
“I believe it’s very a lot within the optimisation of the bundle,” he mentioned. “So it’s one thing that may be solved short-term.
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“We have already got a couple of concepts within the route we wish to push, as we’ve seen some huge variations between the automobiles within the final race. So I positively don’t assume that it’s one thing that we can not repair short-term. It’s positively, a short-term precedence to repair that and we imagine we are able to try this.”
Ferrari are considered one of a number of groups this season who’ve introduced important upgrades packages to their automobiles however haven’t gotten the instant beneficial properties in efficiency that they might have needed. Requested if massive upgrades packages are a riskier prospect lately, Leclerc says the closeness of competitors is the important thing issue.
“I believe it’s all the time been the identical,” he mentioned. “The one factor that modifications at the moment is that in two tenths, you may go from a hero to struggling lots.
“In Austria, for instance, being two tenths off pole means that you’re going from P1 or P2 to P5 or P6. In order that makes a giant distinction and everytime you convey a brand new bundle, you might want to just remember to optimise it as rapidly as potential.
“You’ve bought to do this, in any other case you additionally keep behind and others enhance and also you don’t. So it’s solely by optimising our bundle that we’ll do a step ahead and never by staying the place we have been at the start of the season and never enhance the automobile. So it’s positively a danger price taking.”
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