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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Automotive Industries page on 1 June 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Charles Leclerc is a Monégasque racing driver, currently driving in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. Leclerc won the GP3 Series championship in 2016 and the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017.
Leclerc made his Formula One debut in 2018 for Sauber, a team affiliated with Ferrari, for which he was part of Ferrari Driver Academy. With Sauber having finished last the year before, Leclerc led the charge to improve the finishing position in the constructors' championship to eighth, being the higher ranked of the two Sauber drivers. Starting from 2019 and contracted until the end of the 2024 season, Leclerc is due to be driving for Ferrari. He became the second-youngest driver to qualify on pole position in Formula One at the 2019 Bahrain Grand Prix. The 2019 season also saw Leclerc take his first career win in Belgium, followed by winning his first Italian Grand Prix as a Ferrari driver the week after. He won the Pole Trophy in the 2019 season becoming the youngest driver ever and the first non-Mercedes driver to win it since the trophy's inception in 2014.
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 29 June 2019 | Grand Prix d'Autriche 2019 : Charles Leclerc en pole position  | Wikinews |
| 1 September 2019 | Grand Prix de Belgique 2019 : Première victoire de Charles Leclerc | Wikinews |
| 21 September 2019 | Grand Prix de Singapour 2019 : Charles Leclerc en pole position | Wikinews |