Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto is confident that Charles Leclerc can return to the attack now that he has been fitted with a new engine. The Monegasque is well behind Max Verstappen, but Ferrari hopes that with his new engine he will be able to make up some of that lost ground before the summer break.
Leclerc drove a great race in Canada, in which he managed to come back from the last row of the grid to fifth place. This result strengthens Binotto's confidence in his driver's ability to make up points in the coming races.
Binotto hopes Leclerc can attack with new engine
The team boss says in conversation with Formula1.com that Ferrari decided shortly after the race in Baku to take the grid penalty for a new engine. This allowed Leclerc to prepare for the corresponding strategy as early as Friday in Canada, which required him to drive two long stints during the race.
With his fifth place, Leclerc limited the damage as much as possible, but he could not prevent Verstappen from advancing in the championship again. Moreover, he goes into the upcoming races with a fresh power unit. "We’ve got four races until the summer break – that will be important to him where he can attack," Binotto continued. "Let's try to somehow recover some points if we can."
I don't know what all you fools are talking about but Ferrari would have certainly won in Spain if their engine didn't blow up, along with Monaco if the strategists didn't suck. They also had a pace advantage at baku and simulations we're showing they would have easily won. They also had the back advantage in Canada and redbull even admitted that themselves. Ferrari has the better car and driver. They just ran into a wall of bad luck
That was supposed to say pace advantage in Canada not back advantage
Ferrari definitely have the better package and car, but not the best driver currently in f1, Verstappen will pull a Verstappen on Charles again when it comes to that, Charlie is very good a one pace but when Verstappen in on his tail and pushing charl will make a mistake
Both(Max's and Perez's) Honda PU's are new since they were introduced at Baku. First PU's were used for 7 races without much drop in performance and also Honda PU's have least amount of degradation amongst all manufacturers.
After Silverstone is Austria. Binotto better pays attention to turn that engine a bit down on high altitude it may overcook. The Honda engines don't break a sweat in thin air or high temperatures.
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