The day Leclerc ended Vettel

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Ferrari has won 19 times in Monza. The last one was nine years ago when Fernando Alonso crossed the finish line first after living one of the weekends with more pressure of his life. At that time he was two-time world champion and had been in the top competition for nine years. Despite his experience he suffered. He realized what it means to carry the weight of Ferrari on his shoulders in a grand prize as hard and emotionally charged as that.

Charles Leclerc has been in Formula 1 for a year and a half. He barely added 35 races on his service sheet before putting his head in that mouth of the wolf that is an Italian Grand Prix when you're dressed in red. Perhaps excessive tension for a 21-year-old boy who should still be in the learning phase. However, Charles is special. It has that perfect mix of ingredients that makes it a magical potion, an explosive cocktail that is passionate, but also generates side effects, collateral damage.

He did not hesitate on Saturday in qualifying. He had been the fastest all weekend and his nerves didn't slow him down. He was not even affected by the gruesome that was lived on the track on Saturday. Pole and point.

Sunday was a trap. He had everything against him except the speed of his Ferrari in the straight. He was not going to have rebufo in the six hundred meters that separated his position from the vertex of the first curve at the exit; in return, two Mercedes from behind, Hamilton , a hard braking where it is easy to make mistakes if you have no references and, as if that were not enough, the pressure of Ferrari, the years of drought in Monza, the red stands and the thousands of excited tifossi that They demanded not to disappoint. With all this, I think it was easy to fail. But the wonder boy, that little angel-faced pilot who turns into a devil when the visor is lowered, makes few mistakes. Something improper of his age and his experience. The exit was impeccable and his subsequent duel with Lewis Hamilton brilliant. Feeling the breath of a five-time world champion lap after lap is inhuman. Realize that you have been left alone with the Mercedes because your partner has screwed up is terrifying. Defend yourself after the pit stop with tougher tires than your rivals turns the fight into something epic. Winning one first and then the other with just one failure in so many laps to the limit is something as insulting as it is wonderful.

Leclerc had never wanted to win as much a race as this one so he did. Actually, he did something much more transcendent. He made his revolution triumph. The generational change in Ferrari is a reality. There are no longer doubts or debates about who is number one. The number one is the one that does not fail, the one who does not doubt, the one who does not tremble, the one who shines, the one who does exceptional things. It took a little longer than last year when he shattered Marcus Ericsson after the first two races. But of course, Vettel is not Ericsson. Vettel is a four-time world champion who gets so many waterways that he is no longer able to cover them with his fingers. Vettel is already history and his drama can only get worse because Leclerc learns fast. He has won seven times in a row on the grid, is ahead on the scoreboard on Saturdays, has won two races for Ferrari and is now ahead of him in the World Championship. And the worst thing for Vettel is not just the numbers. The really dramatic thing is that Leclerc is doing what everyone expected him to do. Vettel is now a cartoon of what it was. Maybe because the pressure is drowning you and mistakes when you don't have oxygen multiply. It is good, but not so much. His young partner has already shown that he is much better than him and that he will continue to grow, will continue to win and may be champion if Ferrari gives him a car to fight.

There will be a before and after in Sebastian after this race. His face in celebration was the best telemetry of his suffering. Every slap he received on the back to cheer him up was a stab. In full celebration of Ferrrari only he wanted to leave there. And he left because he knew that party in red was not for him. The doubt from now on will be deciding what to do next year. To clench your teeth and continue to receive the punishment or break the contract and free yourself from this suffering. Vettel knows perfectly well that he can no longer win Leclerc. Ferrari knows perfectly well that Leclerc is his man, his present, his future. Everyone knows that September 8, 2019 was the day Charles finally ended with Seb .

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• Ferrari
• Lewis Hamilton
• Fernando Alonso
• Charles Leclerc
• Formula 1
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