‘Flying Prince’; ‘Beauty and the Beast’; ‘Reclerc’: these are the headlines on the front pages or within the reports dedicated to sport respectively of today’s editions of Italian daily newspapers like Gazzetta dello Sport, La Repubblica and Il Corriere della Sera. The second victory in three races of Charles Leclerc at the wheel of the Ferrari F1-75 defined “a beast” by the Monegasque driver can only be exalted by the Italian press, also because the superiority shown by the Scuderia from Maranello yesterday in Melbourne webt back in time, when – like yesterday – the men in red dictated the law in Formula 1.
“In the cradle-shaped sides, the Red dream grows. Cradles like gentle touches around the “Beast” put on the track by Ferrari to give us a sweet spring. And now, waiting for the propitious corners of Imola, with a sense of joy already in the pipeline, we resist the temptation to dust off the bulletin board, to make comparisons that contain similar images, dated and never forgotten by fans”, writes Giorgio Terruzzi in Il Corriere della Sera adding that Charles Leclerc is “a star, a cannibal, the ideal boy for mothers, daughters and fans with a refined palate”, ready to make the fortunes not only of Mattia Binotto and Ferrari, but also of Stefano Domenicali and Liberty Media, given that a completely full Imola will follow up on a Melbourne that recorded over 400,000 fans over the weekend. And it will be like this throughout 2022.
“The beauty and the beast. Or viceversa? Certainly Charles Leclerc and his Ferrari are out in front, intertwined with each other, indistinguishable in their embrace, far from everything and everyone. They’ve been looking for each other for three years, they finally met. They never leave each other. Together they do what they want. They are in charge. In Melbourne they celebrate their lavish marriage: pole, every lap in command, success and fastest lap. First Grand Slam for the Monegasque and the first Ferrari driver to do it since Fernando Alonso in 2010 ″, Alessandra Retico’s report for La Repubblica underlines the Monegasque’s happiness at having finally found his red Beast, a car with which he is not forced to overdo things like in the last two seasons.
“With a Leclerc like this there are no more limits and the Ferrari magic is destined to last”, the title of the analysis made by Gianluca Gasparini in La Gazzetta dello Sport, “2022 looks like a tree-lined avenue full of traffic lights where the green appears as if by magic as soon as the Ferrari car approaches”.
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