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Ferrari affirm color change for Monaco Grand Prix as Charles Leclerc speaks out

Charles Leclerc confirmed off Ferrari’s colors for the Monaco GP in a brand new video.

Charles Leclerc modelled Ferrari’s particular race fits for the Monaco Grand Prix (Picture: Scuderia Ferrari)

Ferrari have unveiled particular race fits for his or her drivers to put on at this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. In a video posted on social media, Charles Leclerc, who was born and raised within the Principality, is seen modelling the brand new look which has seen Ferrari take the choice to invert their standard color scheme.

The Scuderia will all the time be related to crimson and the same old race fits worn by Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton are predominantly of that color, with white accents and small flecks of blue from the workforce’s sponsorship cope with HP. However white would be the fundamental color for the workforce this weekend with its conventional crimson relegated to accent standing solely.

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Leclerc confirmed off the brand new look as he spoke in a video about what it means to him to have the ability to compete in his homeland. He stated: “To race at dwelling could be very, very particular. These are the streets that I’ve been taking my bus since I used to be a child. There’s simply one thing about Monaco.

“On the observe, whichever nook I’m in, I’ve acquired a narrative of my childhood or from once I began racing. There’s a little bit of a private story in every single place across the observe, and that’s the reason it makes it so particular for me.”

It took a number of makes an attempt on the race for Leclerc to get any pleasure in Monaco, regardless of the familiarity of his personal streets. He crashed out of his first F1 race when driving for Sauber in 2018, and the ‘curse’ adopted him to Ferrari the place ground injury from an early collision curtailed his 2019 Monte Carlo race, whereas a transmission failure struck in 2021 and a Ferrari technique blunder value him the win a yr later.

It wasn’t till 2024, his sixth F1 Monaco Grand Prix, that Leclerc lastly tasted victory in his homeland. And he’s being tipped as a possible darkish horse to repeat the trick once more this time, regardless of Mercedes beginning the season as the game’s dominant workforce and McLaren overtaking Ferrari as their chief challengers in these early months of the marketing campaign.

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Leclerc and Ferrari have traditionally proven sturdy tempo round this circuit and former F1 racer Jolyon Palmer thinks the house hero has “a terrific shot” at glory this weekend. “Ferrari will certainly win a race this yr. That is my scorching tip this early on,” he informed Lottoland. “I feel they are going to be in with a terrific shot in Monaco. I feel I might put that on Charles as a result of I feel he is simply such a Monaco specialist and it is his dwelling race and every little thing else.

“The Ferrari automobile isn’t solely an excellent chassis, nevertheless it’s nice off the road, which in the meanwhile they nonetheless maintain that benefit. Nonetheless, the ability unit on the Ferrari is their weak spot and it’s totally troublesome for a driver to have an excessive amount of say on that. However, Ferrari has a golden probability to win in Monaco due to the best way that their automobile is.”

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