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Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc finished second at the Canadian Grand Prix in March [Mathieu Belanger\/Reuters]<\/p>\nCharles Leclerc has extended his contract with Ferrari for an undisclosed length, having joined the F1 team in 2019.<\/p>\n
Published On 3 Jun 20263 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc will continue to race for Ferrari after \u2060the Italian Formula One team announced a long-term contract extension before his home Monaco Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Monegasque has driven for the Maranello-based outfit in F1 since \u20602019, winning eight races, and his last contract extension came in 2024.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier to continue this journey with Scuderia Ferrari HP. It has always been so much more than just a team to me,\u201d Leclerc said in a statement issued by Ferrari on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Leclerc is currently third in the 2026 drivers\u2019 championship but 56 points behind Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli, who is 43 ahead of teammate and closest rival George Russell after winning the last four races.<\/p>\n
He has raced more times for Ferrari (155) than any other driver in the team\u2019s history, other than now-retired seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, and also ranks \u200csecond for pole positions behind the German.<\/p>\n
Ferrari did not specify the duration of his new contract, saying only that Leclerc would continue for the \u201ccoming seasons\u201d in the championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cCharles has been part of the Ferrari family for many years now and this renewal feels like something very natural for us,\u201d team principal Fred Vasseur said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver these seasons, we have seen him grow to become not only one of the strongest drivers in Formula One, but also a person who is completely at one with \u2060the team and everything Ferrari represents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know how much this project means to \u2060him and we are happy to continue working towards our shared goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc finished second at the Canadian Grand Prix in March [Mathieu Belanger\/Reuters]<\/p>\n
Leclerc joined the Ferrari Academy in 2016, won the Formula Two title in 2017 and made his F1 debut with Ferrari-powered Sauber (now Audi) in 2018.<\/p>\n
Leclerc\u2019s teammate is the UK\u2019s seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, who \u2060joined from Mercedes last year on a multi-year contract and is expected to continue next season, when he will be 41 years old.<\/p>\n
Hamilton is fourth in the \u2060standings, three points behind Leclerc.<\/p>\n
Ferrari have not taken a Grand Prix \u2060victory since 2024, or a championship since 2008, but Hamilton won a Saturday sprint race in China last season and finished second in Canada last month.<\/p>\n
Leclerc has had two podium finishes this season \u2013 third in Australia and Japan \u2013 and will be heavily fancied for his \u200chome race this weekend, with Ferrari expected to be competitive at the slowest circuit on the calendar, where top speed is less of a factor and grid position is crucial.<\/p>\n
Growing up in the principality, Leclerc in 2024 \u200cbecame \u200cthe first local to win the Monaco Grand Prix in the championship era and has taken pole there three times in the last five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc has extended his contract with Ferrari for an undisclosed length, having joined the F1 team in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,3456,578,576,577,4996,3837,12716,44,457,82],"class_list":["post-712537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-europe","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-italy","tag-monaco","tag-motorsports","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712537","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=712537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}