Charles Leclerc says that there is “a lot of motivation” at Ferrari as they set their sights on the constructors’ championship, with the Monegasque hopeful that the team can “come back to McLaren” at the top if they continue to maximise their consistency and bring home points.
The Scuderia closed the gap to the leaders in the standings with their strong performance last time out in Austin, Leclerc having led home team mate Carlos Sainz in a one-two result. This has put them just eight points behind Red Bull in second place, while McLaren are 48 points ahead at the top.
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When asked if he expects a repeat of this during the upcoming Mexico City Grand Prix weekend, Leclerc suggested that the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez should be a decent track for Ferrari “on paper”.
“It’s very difficult to predict this season race by race,” the 27-year-old conceded. “Last weekend went extremely well for us. We were particularly strong in races and in race pace. In qualifying, we struggled a little bit more.
“However, on paper, Mexico should be quite a good track for us. But that doesn’t mean we’ll reproduce the kind of performance we’ve done in Austin – we just need to focus on ourselves, focus obviously on FP2 for me, I won’t be doing FP1, Ollie [Bearman] will be in the car for FP1.
“And yeah, just try and maximise the result this weekend, and then we’ll see where it ends up, but it’s obviously a very important part of the season, only five races to go, and there’s the constructors’ title, that is still possible, so we’ll give absolutely everything in order to try and take that one.”
