![]() During the season, he took seven podium positions, including a double victory at Monza, to finish runner-up in the championship behind Koiranen GP's Nyck de Vries. In 2014, Leclerc graduated to single-seaters, racing in the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps championship for British team Fortec Motorsports. ![]() 2014–2016: Formula Renault, Formula Three, and GP3 In his final year of karting in 2013, Leclerc won the South Garda Winter Cup and claimed sixth position in the CIK-FIA European KZ Championship and finished second in the CIK-FIA World KZ Championship, behind current Red Bull Formula One driver Max Verstappen. Leclerc graduated to the KF2 category in 2012 with the factory-backed ART Grand Prix team, winning the WSK Euro Series title, as well as finishing runner-up in the CIK-FIA European KF2 Championship and the CIK-FIA Under 18 World Karting Championship. During the year, Leclerc also became a member of Nicolas Todt's All Road Management company. He continued in the KF3 class for 2011, winning the CIK- FIA KF3 World Cup, the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy and the ERDF Junior Kart Masters. In 2009 he became French Cadet champion before moving up to the KF3 class in 2010, where he won the Junior Monaco Kart Cup. ![]() Leclerc began his karting career in 2005, winning the French PACA Championship in 2005, 2006, and 2008. Leclerc has described his religious stance as " in God, but who would pray or go to church." Early career 2005–2013: Karting He has said "he likes both", and that others using either pronunciation is acceptable to him. Although the French pronunciation of his name uses silent final consonants, he has stated that when speaking English he often uses the Anglicized pronunciation. Leclerc is trilingual, being fluent in French, Italian, and English. Hervé died after a long illness, aged 54, just four days before Leclerc would go on to win the feature race at the 2017 Baku Formula 2 round. His father, Hervé, also raced cars, driving in Formula 3 in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout his childhood and early career, Leclerc maintained a close relationship with the late Jules Bianchi, to whom he was a godson. Leclerc is set to remain at Ferrari until at least the end of the 2024 season.īorn to father Hervé Leclerc and mother Pascale, Leclerc grew up the middle child between older brother, Lorenzo and younger brother, Arthur. He scored the first grand slam of his career at the 2022 Australian Grand Prix. Leclerc finished runner-up to Max Verstappen in the 2022 World Drivers' Championship.Īs of the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix, Leclerc has achieved 5 race wins and 19 pole positions in Formula One. He won the FIA Pole Trophy for most pole positions in the 2019 season, becoming the youngest driver to win it, before winning it again in 2022. The 2019 season also saw Leclerc take his first career win in Belgium. He joined Ferrari the next season and became the second-youngest driver to qualify on pole position in Formula One at the 2019 Bahrain Grand Prix. With Sauber having finished last the year before, Leclerc led the charge to improve its finishing position in the Constructors' Championship to eighth, and was the higher ranked of the two Sauber drivers. Leclerc made his Formula One debut in 2018 for Sauber, a team affiliated with Ferrari, for which he was part of the Ferrari Driver Academy. He won the GP3 Series championship in 2016 and the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017. ![]() Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc ( French pronunciation: born 16 October 1997) is a Monégasque racing driver, currently racing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. ![]()
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