Albert of Monaco had tears in his eyes, his nephew Andrea Casiraghi was happy as a child. Never before had a Monegasque-born driver won the Monte Carlo Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc he dispelled the taboo. The Monegasque from Ferrari, starting from pole position, finished the race in the leadstarted twice due to a first-start accident caused by Magnussen in the Haas which involved Perez in the Red Bull and the other Haas.
At the second start Leclerc held the lead and never left it until the final scream and at tears which were clear in his words still inside the helmet and car after passing under the checkered flag waved by Mbappé.
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We have rarely seen him so emotional, before and after the awards ceremony. «It was a very tough race, until the end I tried not to think too much about what had happened to me in the past. I managed the tires for so long and then in the last laps all the emotions came out I thought about my dad, without him I would never have become a pilot».
For Leclerc these are the streets of home. «There are no words to explain my joy. This is the race that made me dream of becoming a pilot. In the last 15 laps I wasn’t thinking about driving, but only about my dad, because this was our dream. It never happened to me, it wasn’t easy to manage, and in the end when I came out of the tunnel I couldn’t see anything because I had tears in my eyes.”
His father, Hervé, died in 2017. He was his number one fan and, after his funeral, Charles Leclerc went to race in Formula 2 with Ferrari in Baku. «He did everything for me to be here, it was our dream for me to race here and win. He taught me discipline, humility, sacrifices». And she told him: “Whether it’s the happiest or the saddest period, never change the way you face life.” Two years earlier his pilot friend had died Jules Bianchi, after an accident at Suzuka the previous year. «After Jules’ death, my father’s passing was a second shock. It was hard, there is nothing that can prepare you for the moment you lose your father” is the sentence reported by Corriere della Sera.
Mother Pascale and brothers Arthur and Lorenzo were not missing on the day of victory. There was no shortage of Ferrari drivers who also celebrated third place Carlos Sainz. The first to embrace the pilots was John Elkann who was with his wife Lavinia as a guest of the princes of Monaco and the family of his sister Beatrice married to Pierre Casiraghi.
