Charles Leclerc has been named as a future goal for the brand new Cadillac F1 workforce.
1978 F1 world champion Mario Andretti, a member of Cadillac’s board of administrators, stated he’s a “big fan” of present Ferrari driver Leclerc and prompt he would help Monaco’s formidable transfer to poach him.
Andretti gave his opinion on among the present drivers in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport and expressed his need to in the future signal with Leclerc.
“Verstappen could be very sturdy,” he informed the Italian newspaper. “I like Piastri’s spirit, however it appears to me that for some cause – I do not know why – they’re favoring Lando Norris at McLaren.
“I am an enormous fan of Leclerc. If he actually needs to vary groups in the future, I will take him to Cadillac straight away. Ferrari is Ferrari and he’ll be again in the end. Anytime.”
Cadillac has already signed Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez for his or her debut F1 season in 2026.
Any try and signal Leclerc sooner or later can be a massively formidable transfer for F1’s latest workforce.
The place does the longer term lie for Charles Leclerc?
Leclerc, 27, is taken into account probably the most proficient drivers on the present F1 grid.
Leclerc has eight wins and 27 pole positions with Ferrari, however he has but to compete for a world championship.
2025 has been a really disappointing season for Ferrari thus far, with Leclerc solely scoring one pole place and 5 podiums.
Regardless of his apparent frustration with Ferrari’s lack of competitiveness, Leclerc has repeatedly burdened that successful the title with the Scuderia stays his dream.
Earlier this 12 months, Leclerc launched into a frivolous rumor within the Italian media claiming he noticed his long-term future elsewhere.
“I am very stunned. I don’t know the place it is coming from. So I might relatively ignore it,” Leclerc claimed in July.
“However I’ve by no means stated something like that in the previous couple of races. If something, I hold saying how a lot I really like the workforce and the way a lot I wish to get Ferrari again to the highest. I used to be simply stunned.”
“The three of us, Fred, Lewis and I, have a shared imaginative and prescient to get again to successful. And we have been working to place all of it collectively. And, yeah, that is our plan. I believe we have to persist with it.”
Leclerc has signed a multi-year contract extension with Ferrari in early 2024.
The precise size of the contract has not been disclosed, however it’s believed to run till the top of the 2029 season.
