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Legends: Analysing the youngest Ferrari drivers past and present

Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are Ferrari’s youngest driver line-up since Amon and Ickx. We look back 53 years to see what went down at Ferrari in ’68. Someone mentioned that Ferrari’s 2021 Formula 1 driver line-up is its youngest since 1968. At 23, Leclerc was born on 16 October 1997 and 26-year old Sainz on 1 September 1994. Which will basically make their combined age a square 50, should the 2021 season actually start at Bahrain on 28 March. Born on 1 January 1945, Jacky Ickx started the ’68 season on his 23rd birthday at the 1 January South African Grand Prix. Chris Amon, born on 20 July ‘43 was twenty-four and a half. Not to let the facts interfere with a good story,...
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