Charles Leclerc now has more points in the last six Formula 1 races than Marcus Ericsson has in his entire Formula 1 career.
Alfa Romeo Sauber’s Charles Leclerc has driven in just nine Formula 1 races since his career in the sport began at the start of this season. While it took the 20-year-old Monegasque driver until the fourth race of the season, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, to finish in the top 10 and score his first career points, he has now scored points in five of the last six races.
Leclerc finished in a career-high sixth place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and he has scored points in four of the five races that have taken place since then. The 2016 GP3 Series and 2017 Formula 2 champion finished in 10th place in the Spanish Grand Prix, the Canadian Grand Prix and the French Grand Prix, and he finished in ninth in the Austrian Grand Prix. He is currently on a three-race streak of top 10 finishes.
As a result of his success over the course of the last six races, Leclerc has racked up 13 points so far this season. During this six-race span, the only race during which he did not score points was his home race, the Monaco Grand Prix. He finished in 18th place in that race following a late collision with Scuderia Toro Rosso’s Brendon Hartley.
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Meanwhile, Leclerc’s teammate, Marcus Ericsson, has recorded two top 10 finishes so far this season after going the entire 2016 season and the entire 2017 season without scoring a single point.
Prior to this season, Ercisson had last scored a points as a result of his ninth place finish in the 2015 Italian Grand Prix. His two top 10 finishes so far this season were a ninth place finish in the Bahrain Grand Prix and a 10th place finish in the Austrian Grand Prix.
As a result, Ericsson has racked up three points in 2018. He entered the 2018 season having driven in 76 career Formula 1 races, and he entered the season with five top 10 finishes and nine points. Through 85 career races, he has now racked up seven top 10 finishes and 12 points, meaning Leclerc has scored more points in the last six races than Ericsson has in his entire Formula 1 career thus far.
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With Charles Leclerc currently on a blistering pace by Sauber standards, will he pull away from Marcus Ericsson in the career points category throughout the course of the rest of the 2018 Formula 1 season? If Leclerc does indeed end up replacing Kimi Raikkonen at Scuderia Ferrari next season, which is what many people expect him to do, expect his career point total to skyrocket.