The pole position scored by Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in the Spanish Grand Prix earlier today was not only a real feat for the Monegasque driver in Barcelona, where he managed to beat Max Verstappen’s best time with only one attempt available. At the Circuit de Catalunya, Maranello team’s driver also took his 13th career pole position start, all behind the wheel of a Ferrari car.
Thanks to this result, limited to the history of the Maranello team, Charles Leclerc has equaled a legend like Italian racing driver and a two time Formula One World Champion Alberto Ascari, won consecutive world titles in 1952 and 1953 for Scuderia Ferrari.
At the same time, Charles Leclerc has also managed to catch up with other world champions or drivers who have left their mark on the history if Formula 1, all of whom have taken 13 career poles in F1: among the six drivers that make up this special ranking, three have also won the title.
Specifically, the first to take 13 poles were Graham Hill and Jack Brabham, both protagonists between the end of the 1950s and the middle of the following decade with a total of five world titles won. Later, in 1997, it was Jacques Villeneuve who became world champion, with the Canadian who also ended his Formula 1 experience with 13 pole positions. The other three drivers of the same number of best laps in qualifying, but without a success in the world championship, were Jacky Ickx, Juan Pablo Montoya and Mark Webber. Now, the next goal therefore remains that of 14 pole positions, which is the total number of pole positions taken by his direct opponent for the F1 title this season: Max Verstappen.
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