Leclerc signs multi-year Ferrari extension ahead of home Monaco Grand Prix

Charles Leclerc has signed a multi-year contract extension with Ferrari, the team announced ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix — the race the Monegasque won on home soil in 2024. No end date was attached to the deal, though Ferrari’s official statement confirmed Leclerc will “continue to wear the team’s colours for the coming seasons.”

The extension follows the multi-year contract Leclerc signed during the 2024 season and cements his long-held ambition to win a world championship with the Scuderia. He currently has 155 grand prix starts for Ferrari, meaning the new deal should carry him past Michael Schumacher’s team record of 180 starts.

“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 the responsibility of driving for Ferrari is something he does not take lightly. “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.”

Team principal Fred Vasseur described the renewal as a natural step. “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,” Vasseur said. “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.”

Leclerc sits second only to Schumacher in pole positions for Ferrari, with 27 to the seven-time champion’s 58. The gap in victories is wider still — Schumacher won 72 races in red compared to Leclerc’s eight — though the 27-year-old’s pole-to-win conversion rate of 18.5% reflects seasons spent in machinery that has often been stronger in qualifying than in race trim. The new deal signals Ferrari’s belief that the hardware will eventually match the driver’s ambition.