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‘Leclerc a mix of Schumacher and Raikkonen'
Sauber team manager Beat Zehnder says in Charles Leclerc he saw a mixture of Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher. Leclerc made his debut in Formula 1 with the Sauber team in 2018, spending one season there before graduating to Ferrari for 2019. And in that year Zehnder said he knew he was working with a driver of the like he had never seen before. In fact, he called him a mix of 2007 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen and F1's most successful racer of all time, seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher. 'It was a very good season, it was a very interesting season working again with a young kid,' Zehnder told Autosport. 'We've done this before, but for the first time in a long time, we had...
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