Charles Leclerc took 12 pole positions in Formula 1, but only managed once in three to turn them into victories. An apparently negative trend for Ferrari and which, on closer inspection, is rather encouraging …
There is a negative statistic that Charles Leclerc’s defeat in the Miami F1 GP further solidified. The Ferrari driver, who reached 12 pole positions in his career, has only won 4 races in the World Championship, all starting from the first box of the grid. A rather low percentage of transformation of pole into victories, which unites the Monegasque more to Valtteri Bottas than to his rivals Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, or to the other great world champions of the past, from Schumacher to Senna, from Prost to Lauda, without forget people like Alonso and Vettel. The statistics, certainly not flattering, however, are more than anything else the result of an obvious anomaly. Which, with the right interpretation, should exalt rather than worry the fans of the Cavallino …