91 Facts About Charles Leclerc

Charles Marc Herve Perceval Leclerc is a Monegasque racing driver, currently racing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari.

Charles Leclerc won the GP3 Series championship in 2016 and the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017.

Charles Leclerc 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.

The 2019 season saw Charles Leclerc take his first career win in Belgium.

Charles Leclerc 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.

Charles Leclerc finished runner-up to Max Verstappen in the 2022 World Drivers' Championship.

Charles Leclerc scored the first grand slam of his career at the 2022 Australian Grand Prix.

Charles Leclerc is set to remain at Ferrari until at least the end of the 2024 season.

Herve died after a long illness, aged 54, just four days before Charles Leclerc would go on to win the feature race at the 2017 Baku Formula 2 round.

Charles Leclerc is trilingual, being fluent in French, Italian, and English.

Charles Leclerc has said "he likes both", and that others using either pronunciation is acceptable to him.

Charles Leclerc began his karting career in 2005, winning the French PACA Championship in 2005,2006, and 2008.

Charles Leclerc 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.

Charles 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.

In 2014, Charles Leclerc graduated to single-seaters, racing in the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps championship for British team Fortec Motorsports.

Charles Leclerc won the Junior Championship title at the final race of the season in Jerez, finishing ahead of teenager Matevos Isaakyan.

Charles Leclerc took part in a partial Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season with Fortec as a guest driver.

Charles Leclerc graduated to Formula Three in 2015, racing in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Dutch team Van Amersfoort Racing.

At the opening round of the season in Silverstone, Charles Leclerc inherited pole position for the second and third races of the weekend after original pole-sitter Felix Rosenqvist was excluded for a technical infringement.

Charles Leclerc went on to take his first race victory in the third race of the weekend, ahead of Antonio Giovinazzi and Jake Dennis.

Charles Leclerc took his second victory at the following round in Hockenheim, winning the third race as well as taking two additional podiums and three rookie victories over the course of the event.

Charles Leclerc scored his third win in the first race at Spa-Francorchamps which saw him take the lead in the championship.

However, Charles Leclerc finished fourth in the standings, mostly due to damage sustained to his car's chassis following a collision with Lance Stroll at Zandvoort.

In November 2015, Charles Leclerc finished second at the Macau Grand Prix.

In December 2015, Charles Leclerc partook in post-season testing with ART Grand Prix and Arden International.

The week following his victory in the GP3 title race, Charles Leclerc was confirmed to be graduating to the Formula 2 series for the 2017 season with Prema Racing, alongside fellow GP3 racer and Ferrari junior Antonio Fuoco.

Charles Leclerc made his debut at Bahrain, where he took pole position for the feature race, but only finished third.

Charles Leclerc pushed harder on his medium Pirelli tyres, creating a nine-second lead before pitting.

Charles Leclerc did not score any points at his home round at Monaco.

Charles Leclerc was on pole but retired from the lead of the race with a suspension problem.

Charles Leclerc retained the championship lead despite the bad weekend, which he described as 'hugely disappointing'.

Charles Leclerc took a fourth consecutive pole in Azerbaijan, which he dedicated to his late father, Herve.

Charles Leclerc converted this into another win, although the race was red-flagged five laps before the scheduled end.

The retirement of the race leader, his title rival Oliver Rowland, and De Vries, who was ahead of Charles Leclerc, meant Charles Leclerc improved to fourth.

Charles Leclerc then passed Nicholas Latifi and Jordan King, and began to close on the new leader, Nato.

Charles Leclerc passed Nato, but had been given a ten-second penalty for failing to slow for yellow flags, and therefore finished second.

Charles Leclerc would retire from the sprint race after colliding with Fuoco and spinning out.

Charles Leclerc won the feature race, even after his car set alight during the race, and even after one of his wing mirrors detached in the closing stages.

Charles Leclerc was initially able to make up two places but was running slower than the race leaders Alexander Albon and Nicholas Latifi.

In 2016, Charles Leclerc joined the Ferrari Driver Academy and he acted as development driver for Haas F1 Team and Scuderia Ferrari.

Charles Leclerc was the fastest on the first day of the test, running 98 laps in the process and he did not take part in the second day's test.

At his first home race in Formula One, Charles Leclerc suffered a brake failure in the closing laps, colliding into the back of Brendon Hartley and forcing both cars into retirement.

Charles Leclerc ended the season with three consecutive seventh-place finishes in the final three races.

Charles Leclerc led for the majority of the race, but lost the lead and was overtaken by Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas due to his engine dropping a cylinder with a failed fuel injector.

Charles Leclerc started eighth after penalties for the two Alfa Romeos and finished the race fifth with an extra point for the fastest lap of the race.

Charles Leclerc suffered a puncture and severe floor damage after a failed attempt to pass Nico Hulkenberg, leading to his second retirement at his home race.

Charles Leclerc subsequently finished second after colliding with Red Bull's Max Verstappen, having led for the major part of the race.

Charles Leclerc eventually finished the race in third place and was voted 'Driver of the day' for defending his position against numerous attacks by Verstappen during the early stages of the race.

At the Hungarian Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc suffered a rear-end crash in qualifying but still completed the session.

At the Italian Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc won the race from pole position after defending his position from both Mercedes drivers and became the first Ferrari driver to win at Monza since Fernando Alonso won there for the team in 2010.

Charles Leclerc would go on to finish the race in sixth place, his worst finish of the season.

Charles Leclerc went on to finish the race in fourth place.

Charles Leclerc ended the season with a third-place finish in Abu Dhabi.

Charles Leclerc ended the 2019 season in fourth place in the championship with 264 points, ahead of teammate Vettel.

Charles Leclerc, therefore, became the first non-Mercedes driver to win the Pole Position Award.

Charles Leclerc became the first Monegasque to win a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix.

Charles Leclerc was demoted to 14th after receiving a three-place penalty for impeding Daniil Kvyat in the session.

Charles Leclerc subsequently pulled off a one-stop strategy to advance to fourth in the race.

Charles Leclerc stated that he chose not to take a knee due to the negative political connotations he felt such a gesture could have.

At the rain-hit Turkish Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc was running in third place after producing a comeback from 14th on the intermediate tyres.

However, a mistake while attempting to pass Sergio Perez for second on the final lap resulted in Charles Leclerc running wide and losing the podium to teammate Vettel.

The doubleheader in Bahrain was rather forgettable for Charles Leclerc, who finished tenth in the first race and retired after a first-lap collision with Perez in the second.

At the beginning of the season, Charles Leclerc extended his contract with Ferrari until the end of 2024.

Charles Leclerc had a new teammate at Ferrari for 2021 with Carlos Sainz Jr.

Charles Leclerc started the Bahrain Grand Prix in fourth behind Valtteri Bottas and finished sixth.

Charles Leclerc then started fourth and finished fourth at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix behind Lando Norris after struggling to keep his pace after the red flag at the middle of the race.

Charles Leclerc spent half of the race without a radio.

Charles Leclerc then finished sixth at the Portuguese Grand Prix which placed him fifth in the points standings, above his teammate Sainz, who finished 11th in the race.

Charles Leclerc held on to the lead of the race until 2 laps to go when he was ultimately caught and overtaken by Hamilton, finishing the race in second place and claiming his first and only podium of 2021.

At the Hungarian Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc was hit from the side by Lance Stroll on turn 1 and did not finish.

Charles Leclerc took grid penalties in the 2021 Russian Grand Prix and started from 19th.

Charles Leclerc was in the top 5 at one point but fell to fifteenth by the end of the race after heavy rain fell and he was the last to pit for intermediate tyres.

Charles Leclerc took pole in the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix, his tenth career F1 pole.

Charles Leclerc won the Grand Prix, his and Ferrari's first Formula 1 victory since 2019, battling closely with Red Bull driver Max Verstappen throughout the race.

Charles Leclerc received 25 points, plus an additional 1 point for the fastest lap of the race, bringing his total to 26.

At the Spanish Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc led the race with a large margin until a power unit issue forced his retirement, handing Max Verstappen both the race victory and the World Championship lead.

Charles Leclerc started 19th for the Canadian Grand Prix due to a grid penalty for exceeding his allocation for power unit components; he went on to finish the race in fifth.

At the British Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc finished fourth after losing out on pit strategy to his teammate.

Charles Leclerc then took first place at the Austrian Grand Prix.

Charles Leclerc finished in 5th place in front of Fernando Alonso but suffered a 5 second time penalty for speeding in the pit lane, consequently finishing in 6th place.

Charles Leclerc started 2nd and finished 3rd after losing his second place position to Mercedes' George Russell.

Charles Leclerc took pole position at Ferrari's home race in Italy at the Monza Circuit, but due to a team decision from Ferrari to pit under a Virtual safety car, he lost the race lead to Red Bull's Max Verstappen and took the checkered flag in second place due to the race ending under a safety car.

Charles Leclerc took pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix, he finished in second place to Red Bull's Sergio Perez who had taken the lead at the first corner.

Charles Leclerc retired for the second time in three races following a lap 1 collision with Lance Stroll at the Australian Grand Prix.

Charles Leclerc scored his and Ferrari's first pole position of the 2023 season at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, though he failed to convert it to a victory as Sergio Perez took victory in both the sprint and main race.

Charles Leclerc made an appearance in the film Le Grand Rendez-vous, a remake of the 1976 French short film C'etait un rendez-vous.

In 2020, Charles Leclerc became an endorsement model for Giorgio Armani.

In 2018, Charles Leclerc was named Ambassador for the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation, helping to promote the benefits of learning to swim.

In 2020, Charles Leclerc assisted the Red Cross of Monaco, delivering meals and transporting hospital equipment amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Monaco.

Charles Leclerc supported the Italian Red Cross fundraising campaigns, encouraging donations towards its relief efforts.

Charles Leclerc voiced an unspecified character in the Italian language dubbed version of Pixar's 2022 Toy Story spin off film Lightyear.