Which Was Charles Leclerc’s Most Important 2024 Moment?

Every racing driver dreams of winning here, at least, once. And when the win can’t and doesn’t come, then one wonders, whether a podium can be bagged at this particular venue. After all, it’s got dazzling importance, so much so that it is actually counted among the Crown Jewels of the world of Motor-Racing. You win here once or at best, twice and you are touted as a racing legend.

But then, at the same time, it’s also among the hardest to overtake here. The track is such. Not a purpose built or specific Grand Prix racing track, the Monaco Grand Prix, which is the home to the famed F1 race held at the popular Principality is a race like no other.

Ask Charles Leclerc, who finally happened to experience the winning feeling here after having tried to ace the race in a Formula 1 car for six back-to-back years.

Therefore, to put it simply, it took someone like Charles Leclerc, who originally hails from- and thus-belongs to Monaco, the home of Monte Carlo Principality, six consecutive attempts to reach the top step of the podium at the circuit of Monte Carlo. And this win, which came over half a year now back in time, lest it is forgotten, happens to be clearly the biggest moment of reckoning for Charles Leclerc in the 2024 F1 season.

Not a driver who’s afraid of the track situation and most certainly, not a driver who gives much of a thought or takes pressure with regards to the sheer massive talent possessed by his contemporaries; Charles is his own man who believes in going rapid fast and staking early claim in carving a winning situation at a Grand Prix.

He would do the same this very year when going as fast as 1:10:270, a belter of a lap time, the Ferrari driver took pole at Monte Carlo, though not for the first time.

Taking pole here is always the key as while out in the front and facing no dirty year, therefore, you can begin to mount your assault on your pursuers and that’s where you begin to chip away. This, actually, is what Charles Leclerc did when seconds from the five red lights turning green, the famed Monegasque driver exerted early pressure on the 78-lap F1 race.

Why Charles Leclerc’s Monaco win mattered so much?

Surely, what makes the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix win a rather special one for Leclerc is also down to the fact that his own teammate, Carlos Sainz Jr. was defending with all his might from his former McLaren teammate, Lando Norris. The McLaren clearly pushing and pushing and coming hard at the Ferrari SF 24. But while Sainz didn’t budge under pressure, somewhere at the front of the grid, the more pointed end of the spectrum, Leclerc was his own man; controlling the race proceedings with phenomenal coolness under pressure.

So for winning the famed Monaco GP for the first time ever and staking a claim in this prized victory by giving it his everything, the Monaco victory would make this triumph Charles Leclerc’s finest moment in 2024.

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