Charles Leclerc as Sebastian Vettel in 2012: the Monegasque driver is 38 points behind Max Verstappen in the Drivers standings ahead of the French Grand Prix, will he be able to achieve a titanic feat of winning the 2022 Formula One world championship? Charles Leclerc and Scuderia Ferrari believe in the title, even if the statistics don’t seem to be on their side. Since Formula 1 awarded 25 points to the first classified, only once has a driver managed to recover so many points and overturn the final result of the Championship. That driver is Sebastian Vettel, who in 2012, after being more than 40 points behind Fernando Alonso after 11 races, won the World Championship.
In the remaining races, the Ferrari driver did not get any more victories in 2012, as compared to five scored by Red Bull’s German. Same story when it comes to the stats relating to the DNF: two for Fernando Alonso, one for the Red Bull driver. The situation turned around very quickly. In other words, Sebastian Vettel needed five Grands Prix to reverse the situation, recovering 46 points to Fernando Alonso and taking the lead; about half of the races remained.
In conclusion, Charles Leclerc now has 11 opportunities as compared to the nine that Sebastian Vettel had back in 2012, when there were fewer events on the Formula 1 calendar. And now we must also take into consideration the point for the fastest lap in the race, which was not assigned before. In addition, the Monegasque driver has the wild card of the Brazil Sprint Race to get a few extra points. What the Ferrari fans expect from Charles Leclerc is a very difficult task, as both the Monegasque driver and the Maranello team need to be perfect from now on. Especially if we take into account that the Ferrari engine has some reliability problems. But even Red Bull said they fear possible retirements because of this.
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