The trait that makes Leclerc Ferrari's future

Charles Leclerc finally sealed his first Formula 1 victory last weekend at Spa after a season of false hopes. With it, he has emphatically proven why he is Ferrari's future and it stems from a key characteristic of the driver

Jonathan Noble Sep 4, 2019, 1:25 PM

Upd: Sep 5, 2019, 12:58 PM

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What is most surprising about Charles Leclerc becoming Ferrari's youngest ever winner, nestling between Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen in terms of the fewest attempts to take that maiden victory, is not that it has happened so soon. Instead, it's that it has taken this long.

From the moment Leclerc stepped into the Ferrari, he has looked the part. From race two in Bahrain he appeared more than ready to take the top step of the podium.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.