LECLERC KNEW FERRARI COULD WIN F1 AUSTRALIAN GP FROM FP1

Second-starting Leclerc replied: “Oh, it's extremely important.

“It's been a long time since we have had the genuine pace to have Red Bull - I wouldn't say under control, because we don't know what was the real pace of Max today, but I will say that from FP1, we knew that pole position and the race win were possible because we had very good tyre degradation, very good pace. That is a very encouraging sign.”

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24

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“Looking back at the first three races, there is not one race where we didn't maximise the result. So, we need to do that until we get the car that is consistently better than the Red Bull, especially in the race.”

Race winner From lap one, it felt like a race-winning car. And even if Red Bull were also quick and were on pole, that [1m15.915s pole lap time] in quali wasn't out of reach for us.”

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