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Leclerc explains Ferrari low-key performance on Day 1
Charles Leclerc justified Ferrari's subdued start to pre-season testing by the Scuderia purposefully avoiding performance runs at the outset to focus instead on fundamental work. Leclerc was called up by his team at the crack of dawn on Wednesday morning to replace teammate Sebastian Vettel who woke up feeling under the weather. Overall, the Monegasque completed 131 laps of the Circuit de Catalunya but clocked in a lowly P11 on the timesheet, 1.313s down on the Mercedes of pacesetter Lewis Hamilton. Gallery: First actions shots from Barcelona "I think we changed a little bit our approach compared to last year," Leclerc said. "Last year the testing was great, but the first...
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