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Ferrari vice chairman Piero Ferrari declared the team’s driver combination of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz as F1’s best.

Leclerc made his breakthrough into the Ferrari team back in 2019, with Sainz joining the scene in 2021 after a two-season stint at McLaren.

The performance of the pair during that campaign, which helped Ferrari to secure P3 in the Constructors’ Championship, led team principal Mattia Binotto to declare that he was working with the best driver pairing in Formula 1.

And with Ferrari having now produced a challenger capable of pushing for the 2022 title, Leclerc is out to undo the damage of reliability problems and chase down Max Verstappen and retake the lead of the Championship.

Sainz currently sits P4 in the standings, 37 points behind Leclerc, while Ferrari hold P2 in the Constructors’ with a deficit of 56 points to make up on Red Bull.

And speaking to Maxim, Piero Ferrari echoed the sentiments of Binotto by calling Leclerc and Sainz the top Formula 1 duo.

Put to Piero that Ferrari has boasted some of Formula 1’s greatest names in its line-ups of the past, with Leclerc and Sainz now combining youth with talent, he replied: “It’s always difficult to draw comparisons between past and present drivers.

“Charles Leclerc is a smart driver, an extremely gifted guy in all respects, with extraordinary reflexes and great focus. Carlos Sainz has also proven to be a fast and reliable young man.

“They are superb, and they make the perfect match. Today, they are the