Whereas he managed to return dwelling in P2, with Perez and Sainz going wheel-to-wheel firstly of the penultimate lap and dramatically crashing out, Leclerc was left to surprise what may need been on one other day.
Requested to mirror on the race, and when he realised he wouldn’t get the win, Leclerc replied: “I feel as quickly as we put the arduous tyres on. The mediums have been very aggressive and the automotive felt good.
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“Sadly, we didn’t do any excessive gas working on my facet in FP1/FP2 and we went for a set-up course that perhaps within the race was a bit tougher to handle. Particularly on the arduous tyres, I used to be actually struggling to simply hold these rear tyres.
“In direction of the top I actually thought that… in a single nook or two I believed that I’d put it within the wall. It was very shut, however [we ended up] second in the present day.”
