{"id":666901,"date":"2026-05-12T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666901\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:29:09","slug":"charles-leclerc-on-track-to-break-record-set-by-michael-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666901\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc on track to break record set by Michael Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Leclerc is on the verge of breaking a record set by Ferrari <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> legend Michael Schumacher. <\/p>\n<p>Schumacher raced for Ferrari between 1996 and 2006, winning six of his seven world championships with the Scuderia during its most dominant spell in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The German contested an astonishing 180 race starts for Ferrari during his ten year stint, during seasons that averaged 16 to 17 races.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2026, and Leclerc\u2019s race count for Ferrari stands at 154, just 26 shy of Schumacher\u2019s tally. <\/p>\n<p>The Monegasque is tied to a multi-yeaer deal with Ferrari, rumoured to be locked into his contract until the end of 2029, therefore breaking Schumacher\u2019s record in 2027. <\/p>\n<p>Leclerc admitted mixed feelings when the stat was put to him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s strange. I still feel very young, and I remember my first year at Ferrari just like yesterday. But it\u2019s special,\u201d Leclerc said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t love to be remembered as the most experienced driver of Ferrari. I would love to be remembered as a world champion for Ferrari, and this is still to be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where my focus is at. I didn\u2019t really know about this stat, actually. I\u2019m not really looking forward to becoming the first, but I just want to win a world championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m trying and working for every day, and I hope that this day will come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Michael-Schumacher-Belgium-2004-1024x569.webp.webp\" alt=\"Michael Schumacher holds the current record for most races with Ferrari\" class=\"wp-image-245586\"  \/>Michael Schumacher holds the current record for most races with Ferrari<\/p>\n<p>Fred Vasseur backs Charles Leclerc<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari Team Principal Fred Vasseur joined Leclerc in his assessment that the performance of Ferrari is what he and his drivers will be measured on. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles is in the team for ages, he was into the Academy before, to go to Sauber and to come back to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s part of the performance for sure as a driver but also of the development, of the integrity of the team and the team spirit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a big fan of statistics and I don\u2019t know when he will be the number one or the number two, and we are much more focused on performance, short-term performance, than about statistic for 2027 or whatever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc is very much a part of modern-day Ferrari and integral to the Scuderia\u2019s vision. A stat he will want to avoid is being the team\u2019s longest-serving driver without a title. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2026\/05\/12\/max-verstappen-nurburgring-24-hours-entry-triggers-major-announcement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen 24 hour race entry triggers major Nurburgring announcement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc is on the verge of breaking a record set by Ferrari Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,321956,817,826,806,805,803,804,85,199816],"class_list":["post-666901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chares-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-vasseur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}