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Rise of Leclerc triggered Vettel's downfall at Ferrari

The writing has been on the wall for Sebastian Vettel since September 2018 when Ferrari announced Charles Leclerc as his Formula 1 teammate. The German, who will leave the Italian team at the end of a pandemic-hit 2020 season that has yet to start, was top dog at Maranello at the time but Leclerc was young, hungry and determined. Strapped into the red car for 2019, the Monegasque — now 22 — outperformed the four-times world champion on just about every measurement. He won more races (2-1), scored more points (264-240), started from more poles (7-2), stood on more podiums (10-9), had more fastest laps (4-2) and drew more applause than his 32-year-old teammate whose status as the main...
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