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'When he gets into the cockpit he becomes a tiger'

Charles Leclerc had no luck during the Monaco Grand Prix. In qualifying for Q3 he was still on top of the timesheet, but suddenly he hit the wall. As a result he was unable to start the next day. Formula One journalist David Tremayne was nevertheless impressed with the Ferrari driver. "Charles reminds me in some ways of Gilles Villeneuve," he writes on the official website of Formula 1. "He has the same baby face that enables you to peek at the little boy within the man who once dreamed so big, and a calmness of manner that hides the innate passion, but when he gets into the cockpit he becomes a tiger." Read more Leclerc: 'I will try to remember that from this weekend'...
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