Feb.17 (GMM) Certainly one of Italy’s most celebrated Method 1 journalists thinks Charles Leclerc’s repute is on the road in 2025.
Though simply 27, this 12 months shall be Leclerc’s eighth consecutive season on the grid. He retains a repute as one in every of F1’s best possible drivers, however some have begun to query whether or not he’ll ever break by means of for a title.
This 12 months, the Monegasque is being joined at Ferrari by seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton, 40.
Pino Allievi, whose time at La Gazzetta dello Sport dates all the best way again to Enzo Ferrari’s days, thinks Leclerc might properly have a degree to show this 12 months.
“The truth that somebody stated that Hamilton’s arrival is sweet for Leclerc as a result of it’ll enable him to develop is one thing that Charles in all probability didn’t like,” he wrote in his newest column for Autosprint.
“Whereas Hamilton has already gained a lot, Leclerc has to beat his new teammate to defend his repute at Ferrari and in Method 1,” he added. “A defeat would make Leclerc eternally second.”
Whereas Ferrari crew boss Frederic Vasseur is famously near Leclerc, additionally true is that Vasseur’s relationship with Hamilton additionally stretches again to his junior-formula days.
“Charles has been described, in all probability a bit of prematurely, as ‘il predestinato’ – the predestined champion,” Allevi continues.
“However somebody at Ferrari has already described Hamilton as ‘the Messiah’, which suggests to me that the crew might have already got sided with him. That places Charles in a difficult place,” he concludes.
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