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Story of qualifying: Where do Ferrari go from here?

ESPN looks at the main talking points following Mercedes' dominance of qualifying for the French Grand Prix.

Ferrari nowhere as Mercedes underlines dominance: The fastest Ferrari was over 0.6s off the fastest Mercedes in qualifying. That gap is pretty big regardless of the circumstances, but considering Hamilton wasn't happy with his lap and Leclerc said he got everything from his car, it underlines the extent of the real gap between the top two teams at the moment.

Ferrari spent the week ahead of the race playing down its chances at Paul Ricard -- a track that inherently plays to the strengths of the Mercedes -- but even with that in mind the gap was worryingly big.