At times the second is not the first of the losers
Charles Leclerc breathes pure oxygen on the night of Abu Dhabi, conquering a second place in the drivers' championship with anger and strength that weighs like promise, worth, and newfound hope The heightened emotionality of Charles Leclerc takes the form of heavy air, invisible yet vivid, easy to notice in its cumbersome presence. It hangs on his chest and runs through his large, sincere eyes, revealing with gestures, even before words, that the stake reached a higher level. From Interlagos to Abu Dhabi, the weight of this presence came to bear, giving us back a Leclerc who, at the end of an emotional rollercoaster of a season, found something to fight for. Not the world championship, which he believed in until data, results and points forced him to stop. But a second place in the drivers' championship that is worth the weight of a successfully harvested seed, of a loud declaration: I matter, I am, I can . Above me only Max Verstappen: he who is great, he who has a tremendous ...