Charles Leclerc says Ferrari’s one-lap pace in Portugal “looks quite promising” but is unsure whether its race pace will be as strong. Ferrari is enduring its worst campaign in 40 years but has inched forwards in recent events after gradually introducing updates to its recalcitrant SF1000. Ferrari has had the third-fastest package in qualifying at two of the last three events in the hands of Leclerc but has slipped back in race trim. Leclerc finished fourth in both of Friday’s practice sessions at Portimao and was buoyed by the pace of the car on low fuel runs. “It looked quite good today,” he said. “Let’s wait and see, we haven’t done much high fuel running with normal...
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