Why Leclerc isn't Ferrari's only 2019 sensation
There's a young Ferrari star shining in Formula 1, but Charles Leclerc only hit race-winning heights in recent races. Look a bit further down the single-seater ranks and you'll find a Ferrari junior who has been winning from the off in 2019
While Ferrari's Formula 1 performance was lacklustre for much of the first half of 2019 - with driver incompetence and car reliability/strategy execution equally to blame - one of its junior drivers has proved that it was not a company-wide problem.
The sustained success has come from a 20-year-old Russian racer in the early stages of his career. Ferrari and SMP Racing-backed Robert Shwartzman has taken the new FIA Formula 3 series by storm this year.
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