Charles Leclerc is on pole, but Ferrari … trembles

Charles Leclerc in France

In France, Charles Leclerc will start from pole position, but reliability problems do not let Ferrari sleep soundly.

In particular, sports director Laurent Mekies talked about it, “The thought always remains like a woodworm in the back of our minds. If you have a failure when you’re leading, you won’t forget what happened easily. And this year we lost some races like that. There’s a long way to go to get to the bottom of these problems, we know it’s not something we can fix overnight, so we’re all united to deal with it as best we can. I repeat, it’s a bug in our minds, but hopefully we can get better and better in that respect,” he explained to Sky Uk.

Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc, this is his full name, was born in Monaco on October 16, 1997. He is the third driver from the Principality to have participated in the Formula 1 World Championship after Louis Chiron and Olivier Beretta, as well as the youngest ever to have won a Grand Prix driving a Ferrari single-seater. In 2019 he made his debut with the red car, taking Kimi Raikkonen’s place, and in March he hit his first career pole position, in Bahrain.

His first success with the Prancing Horse comes at the Spa circuit in Belgium on September 1, 2019.