Charles Leclerc says Ferrari's 'dream start' to the season 'feels amazing' after team's recent struggles

By Amanda Davies and Matias Grez, CNN

Updated 1751 GMT (0151 HKT) May 5, 2022

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(CNN)«It feels amazing,» a visibly delighted, and perhaps somewhat relieved, Charles Leclerc says.

Since his Formula One debut in 2019, the young Monegasque prodigy has endured a difficult time with Ferrari. Two wins at the very start of his career raised hopes and expectations that the iconic team in red was perhaps not too far away from winning a first drivers' championship title since Kimi Räikkönen in 2007.However, after a frustrating remainder of 2019 and an even worse 2020 — which saw Leclerc finish a lowly eighth in the drivers' standings and Ferrari sixth in the constructors' championship — doubts began to creep in about whether Ferrari could provide their