Thirty minutes after announcing that Kimi Raikkonen was to leave at season end, with Sauber subsequently revealing it had recruited the Finn for two years, Formula One's worst kept secret was finally out of the bag courtesy of the briefest of statements from Ferrari. 'Scuderia Ferrari announces that in the next Formula One racing season, Charles Leclerc will drive for the Team alongside Sebastian Vettel,' it read. Leclerc, a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy, and widely tipped as a potential world champion, has greatly impressed in his debut season with Sauber, regularly getting the car into Q2 and even Q3, while scoring points in a number of races including a superb drive to sixth in...
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