Scuderia Ferrari HP · car #16 · Monégasque
Charles
Leclerc
The Predestinato. Ferrari Driver Academy graduate, GP3 and Formula 2 champion in successive rookie seasons, and the man Maranello built its post-hybrid-era hopes around. Leclerc's blend of qualifying violence and tyre-whispering race craft has made him the Scuderia's reference point since 2019.
| Born | 16 October 1997 |
| Birthplace | Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| F1 debut | 2018 Australian GP (Sauber) |
| At Ferrari since | 2019 |
Stagione 2026
The season in numbers
Points
75
4th in the WDC
Wins
0
team-mate: 1
Podiums
2
team-mate: 4
Best finish
P3
2026 grands prix
Best grid
P3
avg quali P5.3
Quali H2H
3–4
vs Hamilton
vs team-mate
-40
points delta
Leclerc's 2026 has been the season in microcosm: front-row-adjacent on Saturdays, podium-capable on Sundays, and twice now denied the result by misfortune. Podiums in Melbourne and Suzuka (the latter with a 0.484s last-lap defence against Russell on eleven-lap-older tyres) bookended a spring of relentless top-five accumulation.
Then Barcelona compounded Monaco: P10 on the grid and a retirement while Hamilton won, a second scoreless Sunday in three rounds. It leaves him on 75 points, fourth place, 40 behind Hamilton with fifteen rounds to run. The underlying single-lap pace is kinder than the table, but two pointless weekends have done damage the data cannot undo.
Risultati
Round by round
| Round | Grand Prix | Quali | Sprint | Race | Pts | Race best lap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R01 | Australian GP | P4 | — | 3 | 15 | 1:22.579 |
| R02 | Chinese GP | P4 | P2 | 4 | 19 | 1:36.011 |
| R03 | Japanese GP | P4 | — | 3 | 15 | 1:32.634 |
| R06 | Miami GP | P3 | P3 | 8 | 10 | 1:32.515 |
| R07 | Canadian GP | P8 | P5 | 4 | 16 | 1:15.297 |
| R08 | Monaco GP | P4 | — | DNF | 1:15.964 | |
| R09 | Barcelona GP | P10 | — | DNF | 1:20.379 |
Duello
Qualifying vs Hamilton
Best-lap delta per round (bars above zero: team-mate faster)
Race-pace consistency (σ, clean laps)
Australian GP
Chinese GP
Japanese GP
Miami GP
Canadian GP
Monaco GP
Barcelona GP
▮Lower is better: σ of laps within 107% of median, you vs team-mate
Carriera
The career ledger
8
Grand Prix wins
26
Pole positions
43
Podiums
F2 '17 · GP3 '16
Junior titles
Career totals at the end of 2024 · Ferrari Stat archive
Signature
Qualifying peak speed · tyre economy · Monaco redemption arc
His career ledger is heavy with poles relative to wins, a statistic that says more about strategy and machinery than about the driver. When the car has been there, Leclerc has delivered iconic days: Spa and Monza 2019, the 2022 title charge's opening salvo, and the 2024 home win in Monaco that exorcised his most personal curse.
The 2026 regulation reset was supposed to be his clean slate. Nine rounds in, the speed is unarguable: his single-lap pace has run Hamilton to hundredths for most of the year. But back-to-back scoreless Sundays, the Monaco lap-64 retirement and a Barcelona DNF from P10 on the grid, are the wound the rest of the season must heal.
Leclerc's Barcelona GP telemetry →