Leclerc signs Ferrari contract extension ahead of home Monaco Grand Prix

Charles Leclerc has signed a contract extension with Ferrari, keeping him at Maranello for what the team described as “the coming seasons” — language consistent with another multi-year arrangement. The announcement came ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, the race Leclerc won on home soil in 2024.

No specific end date was disclosed, but the deal continues a pattern established when Leclerc signed his previous multi-year contract during the 2024 season. At 155 Formula 1 starts for Ferrari, he is on course to surpass Michael Schumacher’s record of 180 grands prix with the team if the extension runs as expected.

“I couldn’t be happier to continue this journey with Scuderia Ferrari HP,” Leclerc said. “It has always been so much more than just a team to me. It’s the team I’ve loved and dreamt of being part of since I was a child, and after all these years it has become a second family.”

Leclerc added that winning a world championship with Ferrari remains his defining ambition. “I’ll continue to give absolutely everything I have to bring this team back to where it belongs, at the very top — for everyone in Maranello, and above all for the tifosi, whose passion is the heartbeat of this Scuderia.”

In the historical context of Ferrari’s record books, Leclerc sits second only to Schumacher in pole positions for the team, with 27 to the seven-time champion’s 58. The gap in race wins is considerably wider — Schumacher took 72 victories in red, while Leclerc has eight. His pole-to-win conversion rate of 18.5 percent reflects a period in which Ferrari have rarely delivered a car capable of translating Saturday pace into Sunday results.

Team principal Fred Vasseur framed the renewal as a natural progression. “Charles has been part of the Ferrari family for many years now and this renewal feels like something very natural for us,” he said. “Over these seasons we have seen him grow, to become not only one of the strongest drivers in Formula 1, but also a person who is completely at one with the team and everything Ferrari represents. We appreciate his talent, we love his determination and the way he approaches every day with the people in the Scuderia, both on and off the track.”