Feb.17 (GMM) Considered one of Italy’s most celebrated System 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 all F1’s perfect 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 nice for Leclerc as a result of it’ll enable him to develop is one thing that Charles most likely 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 repute at Ferrari and in System 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, most likely a bit 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 might have already got sided with him. That places Charles in a difficult place,” he concludes.
