LECLERC: We are ‘surprised’ to win the Monaco GP story of Ferrari F1 car

Charles Lakeler It is said that it is extremely difficult to repeat the domestic victory of 2024, a specific low -speed weakness of Ferrari. F1 Monaco Grand Prix,

Last year, Lakeler finally found a redemption on the streets of his house, after many years of heart break and near-way in the princely state. The popular victory gave rise to emotional scenes after the race as Ferrari had an encouraging start in the season, with a win with a win for Lakeler and Team-Mate Carlos Sainz Also seven ahead podium.

He was earlier McLaren The rest of the area stole a march and faced a form of Ferrari, which was recovered by the end of the year. But Scuderia has not met the goals for its 2025 car, and is well being outsourced behind McLaren, and is being outsourced as well Mercedes And Max Verustapane Only in the red bull at the forefront.

Whereas Ferrari The 2026 is still hard to overcome your weather rather than focusing on 2026 – with greater upgradation in Barcelona – the main weakness of SF -25 in low -speed corners has been an important feature, which is to be punished around the narrow boundaries of the princely state, at this time the legend gives more pessimistic.

Asked how he evaluated his opportunities to fight for another domestic victory, Lakeler replied: “If you want an honest answer, less, because unfortunately our car is not particularly strong in low -speed corners and Monaco has only low -speed corners.

“On paper, it does not look like the most promising track for us. But Monaco is so unique and is so different from what we do on the season that we can make a good wonder after putting the car down tomorrow – which I hope I hope.

“And if it happens, I hope to be there on Saturday because the qualifying will be the most important part of the weekend. But on paper, it is going to be a difficult.”

But the general rules are not always applied here, with the Monaco corner layouts, turmacs and bumps, which are not always applied here, which is leaving the door to the lakeler.

“It has been the years where we certainly did not expect to be on the pole, and when you feel that you have zero hopes, you just go for it – perhaps there is a little more than those who are trying to manage the expectations in Q3. And you manage to do something special, like we did in 2021, but we were able to keep it here,” Laclerc said.

“So, I still hope that we can reproduce what happened last year. Obviously, my mind is still very fresh to come back to this padock. The last time I was there, we won, and it was a very special moment for me.”

The Monaco set-up has focused on such a low-speed performance, which means that teams have little worry about finding a balanced set-up that wildly performing in different corners. This can be a way to find performance for Ferrari where it is not expecting.

“This is definitely one of the questions that we also asked for ourselves to come here,” Lakeler agreed. “Answer, we will put it on the track tomorrow. We really don’t know what is expected. But it is true that there is only low speed here.

“So, of course, we will try and focus and place the car in the best place possible for low-speed corners, while on most other tracks you simply try and make a compromise between high-speed material and low-motion material.

“I hope we will find something new about our car that we have not seen since the start of the season.”