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Leclerc 'surprised' by Ferrari's depressed Friday pace

Charles Leclerc was expecting Ferrari to endure a difficult time at Spa, but the Scuderia's opening day of running was even worse than predicted. Leclerc and Vettel were nowhere near the top-ten in FP2, lingering in P15 and P16 as they sandwiched the Williams of George Russell. Leclerc was a whopping 1.6 seconds off the pace, and yet the Monegasque admitted Ferrari had tried its best to extricate itself from the depths of Friday's time sheet. "It's probably a surprise to be so far back, especially in FP2," Leclerc said. "We've tried quite a lot of things. At the beginning, I tried something quite aggressive in downforce levels, but it didn't really work out. We came back on...
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