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Another story in a great campaign

harles Leclerc’s victory in last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix was Ferrari’s first at what is now the Red Bull Ring since 2003, when Michael Schumacher was victorious at the then-A1-Ring. Most of that long drought is down to the track’s absence from the Formula 1 calendar until its 2014 return. Leclerc got close in 2019, but Max Verstappen’s brutal and canny racing stopped him taking a maiden win that day. Last Sunday had excellent echoes of both 2003 and 2019, which bode well for Leclerc’s future F1

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