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Leclerc: Track has more grip and the car felt good

Ferrari were the surprise package on Friday, day one of the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc second fastest and Carlos Sainz prepping himself to start from the back of the grid on Sunday. Hence, no surprise, the pair were set on different programmes with Leclerc tasked with the fast stuff which will serve him for qualifying tomorrow, while Sainz worked on race pace. Just under two tenths down on Lewis Hamilton's fastest lap, Leclerc did enough in FP2 to split the Black cars at the top of the timing screens, with Valtteri Bottas in the other Merc third fastest. Leclerc said in the team report at day's end: 'Compared to last year, the track has more grip. The car felt really...
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