Three days before the United States Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc celebrated his 28th birthday. When he was born on 16 October 1997, Elton John was enjoying his fifth and final week atop the UK singles chart with the AA-side Something About The Way You Look/Candle In The Wind ’97, imminently to be deposed by the Spice Girls with Spice Up Your Life.
This is a roundabout, perhaps even overly abstruse, way of expressing an unfortunate fact: Leclerc is no longer the keen young rookie who rocketed onto the Formula 1 scene in 2018 with Alfa Romeo, effectively ending Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari career by earning promotion to Maranello for the following year, where he did the same favour for Sebastian Vettel, a four-time world champion.
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