Charles Leclerc at Monza outperformed even Michael Schumacher.

A feat that rewrites the historical almanacs of the Cavallino.

Charles Leclerc in Monza experienced one of the most glorious days of his career, giving himself and Ferrari one of the most beautiful victories in many years. His triumph at the Italian Grand Prix, which came in the same season as that of the Monaco Grand Prix, moreover, represents a rather rare precedent. That places the Monegasque driver in a small club of which no less than Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher, among others, are not members.

Monte Carlo and Monza, in fact, represent not only two of the most anticipated Formula 1 events of the year. Above all, the two historic circuits have very different, if not opposite, technical characteristics. A detail that has made victories by the same driver on both circuits in the same season extremely rare. In the case of Ferrari even extremely rare.

Consider that before Leclerc in 2024, only one driver from the Cavallino had happened to win at Monaco and Monza in a single championship. That was Jody Scheckter, to whom the feat succeeded in that historic 1979 that also graduated him world champion. This means that even Schumacher, who also won the two Grands Prix several times in his triumphant years with Ferrari, has always missed that historic one-two.

Besides Scheckter, in fact, the only ones to achieve it were Stirling Moss in 1956, Ronnie Peterson in 1974, Alain Prost in 1985, Ayrton Senna in 1990 and 1992, Fernando Alonso in 2007, Sebastian Vettel in 2011 and Max Verstappen in 2023. And none of them was behind the wheel of a Ferrari.