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Ferrari drivers admit their wonder when visiting Maranello for the first time

Article To news overview © Ferrari Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz have said they were starstruck the first time they respectively visited Ferrari's Formula 1 base at Maranello. Leclerc is a graduate of the Ferrari Driver Academy, the first to race in F1 for the team, while Sainz was an outside signing for the 2021 campaign, replacing Sebastian Vettel. And although the pair were excited by their arrival in Italy and keen to get to work, they both had something of a false start when it came to Maranello. Leclerc thought Maranello was full of Oompah Loompas Leclerc actually first visited the factory as a child, at the invitation of a family friend who already worked for the team. The only...
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