The Mexico Grand Prix has confirmed it: 2024 marks the perfect model of Charles Leclerc we’ve ever seen in Ferrari.
Charles Leclerc equals his file for podium finishes in a seasonWith his third-place end final Sunday, the Monegasque has reached the rostrum in 11 races this 12 months, the identical as in 2019.
There are two fundamental variations between these two seasons: the variety of Grands Prix through which he reached this threshold (21 in his first 12 months with Ferrari, 20 within the present Components One championship) and the automotive’s competitiveness, which was extra constant 5 years in the past (all the time among the many prime three groups, with none “off” moments).
With three wins this 2024—Monaco, Monza, and Austin—in comparison with two in 2019, the one statistic through which at the moment’s Charles Leclerc falls wanting his first 12 months with Ferrari is pole positions (3 as a substitute of seven).
This statistic reveals how the SF-24 struggles to discover a rhythm over a single lap, solely to be rather more aggressive within the race. Final 12 months’s automotive, alternatively, was the other: extraordinarily quick in qualifying however difficult through the race.
Maybe the subsequent Ferrari, which may also be Lewis Hamilton‘s first, will handle to realize an ideal stability between efficiency in each situations…
Oct 31, 2024
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