Charles Leclerc extends his contract with Ferrari “beyond the 2024 season”

At 26, Charles Leclerc has already played five seasons with the Italian team.

Monegasque Charles Leclerc, fifth in the Formula 1 world championship in 2023, has extended his contract at Ferrari “beyond the 2024 season”, the Italian team announced Thursday, January 25, without further details. “I am very happy to know that I will wear the Scuderia Ferrari suit for several more seasons”reacted Leclerc, whose contract was expiring at the end of the season.

After starting in F1 in 2018 with Sauber, Leclerc, 26, joined the Scuderia the following year. Author of 23 pole positions, he has reached 30 podiums since his debut with Ferrari and has five Grand Prix victories, finishing vice-world drivers’ champion behind Dutchman Max Verstappen in 2022.

Carlos Sainz waiting

“This team has been my second family since I joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016 and we have achieved a lot together, fighting against all odds over the past five years“, continued the Monegasque, quoted in a press release.

Last year, Leclerc said in an interview withAFP wanting to be crowned world champion with the legendary Prancing Horse team, which finished 3rd in the constructors’ world championship this season, far from Red Bull. “The situation is not the one I would have wanted to be in today, but that doesn’t make me forget the fact that this is my dream team – and that my ultimate goal is to to be world champion with Ferrari”he assured in September.

The next F1 season begins on March 2 in Bahrain after three days of testing on the Gulf island (February 21-23). Until then, the Scuderia will lift the veil on February 13 on its 2024 single-seater which will be driven by Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, hired until the end of the 2024 season. For the moment, no announcement has been made concerning a possible contract extension for the Spaniard.