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Leclerc: Winning F2 shows that I am ready for F1
Charles Leclerc can remember, as a three-year-old, playing with a Formula 1 toy car on the balcony of a friend’s Monaco apartment as the drivers in their cars roared past below. “I fell in love with it straight away,” he told Reuters in an interview. The 20-year-old Monegasque also recalls being towed around a go-kart track a year and a half later by Philippe Bianchi, father of the late French driver Jules, and being even more smitten. Leclerc is now on the brink of the big time, the Formula Two champion and Ferrari protege widely expected to race for the Swiss Sauber team next season. It will be an emotional moment when it happens and he will not be alone. Two racing families,...
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