Is Leclerc ready for a title attack?

Charles Leclerc is already regarded as a world championship threat, despite only two seasons in Formula 1. He says “there is still a big margin of improvement” to come with his own driving, but he has shown enough to be regarded as one of the new ‘Big Three’, along with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.

Six-time champion Hamilton’s title credentials need no introduction and Verstappen put in the sort of campaign last year that would have been good enough to fight for the crown had Red Bull been more consistently competitive. But