{"id":220283,"date":"2025-10-23T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220283\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:47:08","slug":"is-it-time-for-leclerc-to-look-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220283\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it time for Leclerc to look elsewhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three days before the United States Grand Prix, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/840485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charles Leclerc<\/a> 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 \u201997, imminently to be deposed by the Spice Girls with Spice Up Your Life.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/kimi-raikkonen\/829151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kimi Raikkonen<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/ferrari\/36466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ferrari<\/a> career by earning promotion to Maranello for the following year, where he did the same favour for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/sebastian-vettel\/829234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sebastian Vettel<\/a>, a four-time world champion.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three days before the United States Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc celebrated his 28th birthday. When he was born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1665,1687,831,372,6537,94156,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-charles-leclerc","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-is-it-time-for-leclerc-to-look-elsewhere","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}