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Another hard home lesson

“I think it’s the most disappointing moment in my whole career because of being at Monaco. The weekend really was perfect until then.” Charles Leclerc spoke those words to Autosport in his home city, but he didn’t say them last weekend. This was four years ago, when his sensational charge to the 2017 Formula 2 title was just getting going.

He’d dominated on his home streets; he’s taken pole and was leading the feature race. But not long afterwards his run of home-racing misery was set in action. In 2018,

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