Charles leclerc

Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc is a Monegasque racing driver competing in Formula 1 with Ferrari. After winning the 2016 GP3 Series championship and the 2017 Formula 2 championship as a rookie, he made his Formula 1 debut with Sauber in 2018, and in 2019 he took the wheel at Ferrari. He is 28 years old. He is the son of Pascale, his mother, and Hervé, a Formula 3 driver in the 80s and 90s, who passed away prematurely in 2017 at the age of 54 after a long illness – a loss that came just four days before Charles won the Formula 2 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Charles has an older brother, Lorenzo, and a younger brother, Arthur, who is also a driver and was brought up in the Ferrari Driver Academy. When his father was in his final days, he promised him that he would be in Ferrari – even though it wasn’t yet true – but it wouldn’t be long before it became a reality, and indeed he is now the jewel of the team.

Updated September 23, 2026