F1 News: Charles Leclerc evaluates Ferrari F1 car with CANDID comparison

Charles Leclerc has mentioned that then SF-24 ‘feels more healthy’ in comparison with its predecessor after testing the 2024 automotive.

The Monegasque driver and team-mate Carlos Sainz took the automotive spherical Ferrari’s Fiorano Monitor the day of its launch on February 13 earlier than the pair each confirmed nice tempo at preseason testing in Bahrain.

Leclerc defined that his work on the simulator gave him the impression that the staff had taken a “vital step ahead”, however that it was too early to say how the actual automotive would honest in correlation to his evaluation.

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Leclerc: SF-24 is less complicated to drive

And after taking it for a number of laps round Ferrari’s non-public monitor, the 26-year-old mentioned that the SF-24 felt rather a lot simpler to drive, however admitted that it was laborious to inform whether or not it will be aggressive.

Talking on the automotive’s launch, Leclerc mentioned: “I keep in mind that after the primary lap final yr, or if it wasn’t the primary lap, it was the primary three, 4 laps, I wasn’t actually pleased with the behaviour of the automotive.

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“The automotive was very, very tough to drive. This yr, the automotive feels more healthy and in a greater place.

“However, I need to push on the purpose that that does not imply something on the competitiveness of the automotive – as a result of if different groups have performed an even bigger step ahead by way of lap time beneficial properties, then it may be a neater automotive to drive but when it is not quick sufficient, it will not be quick sufficient on monitor.

“So by way of competitiveness, it is very tough. By way of precise feeling of the very first laps, I’d say I’ve had a greater feeling this yr than I did final yr.”

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