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Just moments after Ferrari’s new F1 challenger was revealed at Maranello, Leclerc took to the circuit to complete two laps.
Running live on camera, Leclerc had little trouble getting up to speed as he briefly explored the potential of the new car, and he sounded upbeat afterwards.
“It feels good,” said Leclerc. “I mean the first kilometres with this new project after doing so many kilometres on the simulator, it feels special. So everything went smoothly.
“Obviously with two laps it’s difficult to go into details but I already gave my feedback once I was in the car there to the engineers to get the first feeling. The car was running well, smooth, so yeah, everything went really well.”
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