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Leclerc risks wasting his best years with new Ferrari deal

Charles Leclerc’s loyalty to the Ferrari Formula 1 team is admirable, and rare, but it risks wasting the best years after extending his contract with the team into what is understood to be the 2030s.Leclerc is arguably the most unfulfilled talent of his generation already. At this rate, Mercedes duo George Russell and Kimi Antonelli will outstrip his tally of eight wins. He was already surpassed by McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri last year.And the statistical anomaly that is Leclerc’s 27:8 pole-to-win ratio, and the fact that his 52 grand prix podiums comprise only those eight victories, play into the bigger problem: that there is no trend suggesting Leclerc is any closer to the ultimate goal of winning a world championship.Since joining Ferrari, his final finis …


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Author: Scott Mitchell-Malm

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