Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
LeClerc has been in the team for six years before Hamilton joined. He knows the Ferrari chassis and the workings of the team like the back of his hand. He was expected to do better than the new comer thiss season, and he did. Nothing new there.
Yet, when Leclerc himself joined Ferrari in 2019, he did better than Vettel, who had been with the team for four years. Vettel himself was immediately faster than Raikkonen when he joined Ferrari in 2015, even though Kimi had plenty of experience (and one world championship) with the Scuderia. Alonso also had the upper hand over Massa right when he joined Ferrari in 2010. So no, the experienced Ferrari driver doesn't always perform better than the newcomer, rather the opposite.