MARANELLO, Italy \u2014 Charles Leclerc has signed a new contract with Ferrari \u201cfor the coming seasons,\u201d the Formula 1 team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Leclerc has driven for Ferrari since 2019, having joined its academy in 2016.<\/p>\n
Only\u00a0Michael Schumacher\u00a0has had more F1 races for Ferrari than Leclerc, who also ranks second for most pole positions for the team. He is yet to win a drivers’ title, though.<\/p>\n
Leclerc\u00a0said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t be happier to continue this journey\u201d with Ferrari.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether we\u2019ve shared incredible moments and some tougher ones,\u201d he said in a statement, \u201cbut I believe in this team more than ever, and I\u2019m deeply grateful that we will keep pushing side by side toward our shared goal of bringing the world championship back to Maranello.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement comes ahead of his home\u00a0grand prix at Monaco\u00a0this weekend, when Leclerc will look to back up his win from the 2024 race.<\/p>\n
Leclerc has been racing alongside Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari for the past year and a half and has consistently outperformed the seven-time champion.<\/p>\n
Leclerc finished ahead of Hamilton in the drivers’ standings in the 2025 season and is third in the 2026 standings, one place and three points ahead of Hamilton after five rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver these seasons, we have seen him grow,\u201d Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur said of Leclerc, \u201cto become not only one of the strongest drivers in Formula 1, but also a person who is completely at one with the team and everything Ferrari represents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARANELLO, Italy \u2014 Charles Leclerc has signed a new contract with Ferrari \u201cfor the coming seasons,\u201d the Formula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-712434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}