Feb.17 (GMM) One among Italy’s most celebrated Formulation 1 journalists thinks Charles Leclerc’s fame is on the road in 2025.
Though simply 27, this 12 months will likely be Leclerc’s eighth consecutive season on the grid. He retains a fame as certainly one of F1’s best 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 way in which again to Enzo Ferrari’s days, thinks Leclerc could effectively have some extent to show this 12 months.
“The truth that somebody stated that Hamilton’s arrival is nice for Leclerc as a result of it’s going to 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 received a lot, Leclerc has to beat his new teammate to defend his fame at Ferrari and in Formulation 1,” he added. “A defeat would make Leclerc eternally second.”
Whereas Ferrari workforce 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 slightly 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 workforce could have already got sided with him. That places Charles in a difficult place,” he concludes.
