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Button: Leclerc must fight for the championship

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc must step-up to the plate and challenge Lewis Hamilton for the 2020 Formula 1 driver's championship, according to former champion Jenson Button. Button, who won the 2009 championship with Brawn, believes the 22-year-old Leclerc must aim higher in his second year with the Scuderia than just beating teammate Sebastian Vettel. 'Charles has gone through that honeymoon period at Ferrari and now it is about knuckling down and this year has got to be the year he fights for the championship,' Button told the Daily Mail. Leclerc, who took seven poles and two victories while outscoring Vettel 264 points to 240, was the breakout star of 2019, going from from the Scuderia's...
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