{"id":6293,"date":"2018-09-23T04:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:59:41","slug":"charles-leclerc-tests-in-a-ferrari-car-at-circuit-paul-ricard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/09\/23\/charles-leclerc-tests-in-a-ferrari-car-at-circuit-paul-ricard\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc Tests In A Ferrari Car At Circuit Paul Ricard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time the 2019 Formula 1 season has begun, the sight of <strong>Charles Leclerc<\/strong> seated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/09\/11\/kimi-raikkonen-returns-to-sauber-as-charles-leclerc-moves-to-ferrari-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Ferrari<\/strong> race car will be common practice<\/a>. But it\u2019s not the 2019 season, and Leclerc still has duties to finish up this season at <strong>Sauber<\/strong>. But in preparation for next season on Thursday, Leclerc got his first taste of the Ferrari machine.<\/p>\n<h2>Charles Leclerc Does 129 Laps In France<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>Circuit Paul Ricard<\/strong> played host to the <strong>Pirelli<\/strong> tyre testing session for the team. The first day consisted solely of Leclerc driving. 2019 teammate <strong>Sebastian Vettel<\/strong> is set to drive on the second day of testing. <strong>Pirelli Motorsport<\/strong> tweeted a video of Leclerc driving the car. The tweet read that Leclerc finished off the day with 129 laps in the books. Leclerc will be back in his Sauber car next week when Formula 1 goes to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1Testing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#F1Testing<\/a> wraps up with 129 laps completed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Charles_Leclerc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Charles_Leclerc<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScuderiaFerrari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ScuderiaFerrari<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulRicardTrack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PaulRicardTrack<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Fit4F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Fit4F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FyAfRciDvi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FyAfRciDvi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pirelli Motorsport (@pirellisport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pirellisport\/status\/1042801994753302532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MAIN Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"AQxPw1zrR5lIkYCqmNvTeQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/detail\/1034416860\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'AQxPw1zrR5lIkYCqmNvTeQ',sig:'JZ7kd8_1u1m0LlMl1Mcm38kEgloNCLPtJqqNM3wBgyM=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1034416860',caption: true ,tld:'in',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; SEPTEMBER 16: Charles Leclerc of Alfa Romeo Sauber and France during the Formula One Grand Prix of Singapore at Marina Bay Street Circuit on September 16, 2018 in Singapore. 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But in preparation for next season on Thursday, Leclerc got his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":6299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[445,1054,68,84,117],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-circuit-paul-ricard","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-sebastian-vettel"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}