{"id":495935,"date":"2025-10-13T03:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495935"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:10:16","slug":"leclerc-says-ferrari-is-in-different-place-compared-to-last-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/leclerc-says-ferrari-is-in-different-place-compared-to-last-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Leclerc says Ferrari is in &#8216;different place&#8217; compared to last season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari has made no significant strides since last season, insisting the team is in a \u201cvery different place\u201d as the 2025 Formula 1 campaign heads into its closing stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are in a very different place to last year,\u201d said the Monegasque driver. \u201cHowever, to resume it in the simplest way, I feel like Mercedes is very strong whenever it\u2019s cold, and we seem to be stronger whenever it\u2019s warm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the final stretch of the season, Leclerc hopes the weather will play to Ferrari\u2019s strengths. \u201cLooking at the next few races, I hope it\u2019s as warm as it can get, so we have an advantage. I feel like this is what is going to swing the performance one way or another more than any other track characteristic. This is where we stand, and we\u2019ll see how it goes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite showing good pace at some tracks and securing five podium finishes in 2025, Ferrari remains the only front-running team yet to win a Grand Prix this season. Leclerc\u2019s teammate Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, has yet to stand on a Grand Prix podium, though he did win the Sprint in China earlier this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Since Leclerc joined Ferrari, he has been responsible for more than half of the team&#8217;s victories (8\/13) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R6NgjpzMyr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/R6NgjpzMyr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Holiness (@F1BigData) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1BigData\/status\/1977058596170219864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With six Grands Prix and three Sprints remaining, McLaren has already wrapped up its second consecutive constructors\u2019 championship after sealing the title in Singapore. However, the battle for second place remains tight, with Mercedes earning crucial points at Marina Bay to extend its lead over Ferrari as the season nears its conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari has made no significant strides since last season, insisting the team is in a \u201cvery different place\u201d as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495936,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17927,26546,17680],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[18545,26544,1081],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Scuderia is still the only top 4 team yet to win a Grand Prix this year ","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\/495935"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495937,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495935\/revisions\/495937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495935"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495935"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}