{"id":428251,"date":"2023-03-03T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428251"},"modified":"2023-03-03T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:46:56","slug":"ferraris-main-goal-is-formula-1-title-in-2023-leclerc-says","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ferraris-main-goal-is-formula-1-title-in-2023-leclerc-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari\u2019s main goal is Formula 1 title in 2023, Leclerc says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc has said that Ferrari\u2019s main goal is to go one better than last year by delivering the Formula 1 World Championship title back to Maranello.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, that\u2019s the goal. For sure,\u201d Leclerc responded when asked if Ferrari can win the title this year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Ferrari defeated Mercedes in its battle for the runner-up spot in the Constructors\u2019 Championship. Despite winning two of the opening three races last season, Ferrari\u2019s title challenge soon derailed, allowing Max Verstappen and Red Bull to win both championships with several rounds to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc was able to hold off Sergio Perez to clinch a career-best second in the Drivers\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve had a strong start, Red Bull, and Max seems to be very, very strong,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It\u2019s only testing, so it\u2019s difficult to quantify by how much but it seems that they are a bit in front, compared to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019ve got some work to do but it\u2019s only the beginning. But the goal is definitely to go one better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Italian side has elected to run an evolution of the 2022 car that returned it to winning ways with its brand new SF-23 package for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Months of hard work, all coming together to this point\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The moment SF-23 got its livery \ud83e\udd70 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6SZYSfm67\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/L6SZYSfm67<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScuderiaFerrari\/status\/1628462126150090754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ferrari was able to come through testing without trouble, with its new team principal, Fred Vasseur, boasting the team had completed the run programme it set out.<\/p>\n<p>But, with Red Bull appearing ominously quick, Leclerc has predicted Ferrari is currently a bit behind the reigning champions \u2013 although he has warned that only qualifying will reveal the true answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t show everything \u2013 but Red Bull didn\u2019t show everything,\u201d he cautioned. Nobody showed everything. We will only see in Qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, it\u2019s very difficult to know exactly how we are. But global picture just tells me we are maybe a bit behind.<\/p>\n<p>Following two winless years, Ferrari excelled at the start of F1\u2019s newest era last term to emphatically register a 1-2 finish at the first race in Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc has said that Ferrari\u2019s main goal is to go one better than last year by delivering the Formula 1 World Championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17927,16968,16922],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Last year, Ferrari defeated Mercedes in its battle for the runner-up spot in the Constructors\u2019 Championship","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428251"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428251"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}