Charles Leclerc asks Ferrari to fix 'problem' despite Lewis Hamilton's wish

Charles Leclerc insists Ferrari must continue to work on their porpoising problems even though Lewis Hamilton admits he wishes Mercedes were in the same position as the Prancing Horse. Leclerc admits Ferrari's pace has not been affected by the car's bouncing unlike how badly the Silver Arrows have been hampered, but is eager to see his team find a solution.

Hamilton finished fourth at the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday and is actually ahead of reigning champion Max Verstappen in the Drivers' Championship due to Red Bull's reliability problems. But the Briton, and Mercedes, are well adrift of the pace being set by Leclerc and Verstappen and partly because of porpoising.

Seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton admitted on Saturday he wishes Mercedes could deal with the bouncing of their car as well as Ferrari have, saying: "I don't understand it and I don't think anyone does. I wish ours was the same, but it's not. In some places, the car doesn't feel terrible, it's just not as fast as the others.

"Where you're really unhappy is in the porpoising, that's really the worst characteristic I've experienced in a car. We can't get rid of it at the moment." Leclerc won comfortably in Melbourne after holding off Verstappen despite encountering the same issue as the Mercedes.

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The Monegasque, now a four-time Grand Prix winner, said in Australia after Hamilton's comments: "I don't know why, but I am not very sensitive to it. It looks extremely bad on the onboards. Of course, I feel it but it doesn't disturb me too much, in terms of performance.

"Just for Turn 9 maybe a little bit, because it's just tricky. It's bouncing a lot. But it's definitely something we