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Leclerc: “We’ll try to turn things around”
Charles Leclerc is ready to “try to turn things around” this weekend at the Monaco Grand Prix to get closer to Mercedes after being adrift in Spain.
Mercedes secured their fifth one-two finish in a row in Barcelona and showed their speed in the final twisting sector, where they pulled even further away from Ferrari.
Leclerc said ahead of this weekend (quoted by GPFans.com): "My home Grand Prix is always a very special weekend.
"Even more this weekend obviously coming here in full red with Ferrari with also a chance to have a very good result, so we'll push.
"Obviously we had a difficult start of the season. Low speed corners weren't great in Barcelona but normally Monaco is pretty different.
“We'll try to turn things around, it's not going to be easy but we'll give it everything.
"I think during testing we understood a few things. Not enough obviously to be at the level of Mercedes but we understand a few things.
"We gained a little bit of time, not enough, we need to keep working and try and understand what's the main issue but the engineers are working on that."
Team boss Mattia Binotto also said that the team are looking at new ideas for their car.
"I think it's quite calm, we are all working extremely hard," Binotto said.
"Obviously the engineers are trying to understand and trying to push the team forward but overall I think we are all quite calm which is needed.
"We obviously want to improve so everyone is pushing very hard as I said but I think the most important is that the serenity in the team doesn't change, which it doesn't for now."
