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“He cried if he was second”: the kart years of Charles Leclerc, the Ferrari prodigy who dominates F1

4/24/2022, 10:33:48 AM


Leader of the Formula 1 World Championship before the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola this Sunday, April 24, the Ferrari driver has const

He is crying.

Inconsolable.

Charles Leclerc struggles to contain the flood of tears that floods his cheeks.

Formula 1 is still a long way off.

The young man today at the head of the World Championship is still only a child.

Whose dream of winning the Coupe de France minikart has just crashed with his little car against the wall of tires that borders the Magny-Cours track this weekend in June 2005. A drama when you are 7 years old, comparable to that experienced the same day by a rival whom he still meets today in his life as a pilot: Esteban Ocon.

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