We have reached the eighteenth appointment with the 2024 Formula 1 calendar. The Singapore GP it is now upon us and in the ritual Thursday conference which opens the race weekend, Charles Leclerc commented on the new Ferrari update.
Just when you The fight for the constructors' championship is reopened, the SF-24 is updated again. After losing ground due to errors during the first half of the championship, Ferrari seems back on track after the victory in Monza and the second place in Baku.
Now the little horse is only 31 points from Red Bull e 51 from McLaren which, with the victory in Baku, has climbed to the top of the constructors. Despite this, when asked about the championship he explicitly stressed that the team is not thinking about the standings, but is instead concentrating on doing well race by race, without any claim to the standings.
"We've been doing pretty well since the summer break, so we need to continue that trend. The season is still long, we still have three Sprint races, so a lot of points available for everyone. We can't sit back and start thinking about what happens if we do this or that," the Monegasque driver began in the press conference.
SF-24 update, Leclerc's words and expectations for the Singapore GP
"We are doing a good job. We are bringing a small update this weekend that hopefully will help us for the rest of the season and now obviously we will try to catch Mercedes and Red Bull."
"But it's not by focusing on the title or the final result that [the team, ed.] will get us anywhere. We just have to focus on the process, and that's what we're doing at the moment," he continued.
The number 16 driver of the Prancing Horse then concludes as follows: «I believe that we have the potential to do well on this track too, and that we can fight for the win. We need to proceed race by race, because if it is true that we expect to be competitive here, it is also true that in Austin we will have to verify the quality of the upgrades that we introduced in Monza. I expect McLaren to be competitive until the end of the season and that Red Bull will recover performance soon, so I think it will be an interesting end to the championship. But it is better not to create too many expectations: for the constructors' title I think there are more chances because this season we have almost always managed to maximize the result and this has allowed us to stay in the fight despite a few races below expectations.»
