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Ferrari encouraged by 'very, very tight' Friday times

Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz said that they were surprised by how close everyone ended up in the first two practice sessions of 2021 in Bahrain on Friday. They were within a second of the top time posted by Red Bull's Max Verstappen in both FP1 and FP2. Leclerc was quickest of the pair in the afternoon sunshine, while Sainz was fourth fastest under the floodlights as Leclerc fell to 12th. “Today has been a positive day to be honest,” Leclerc told the media after the end of the day's two one-hour sessions. “We maybe didn’t expect to be as competitive even though it’s still very early days for now. "FP1 was positive on my side, FP2 a bit less," he...
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