If you were to believe the headlines, Lewis Hamilton's underwhelming performance during his first season as a Ferrari driver has come as a massive surprise that nobody expected.
Ignore the headline writers, and the truth is somewhere in between.
However if you ignore the hype, the truth is somewhat different. The bookies' pre-season odds suggested they regarded Leclerc as slightly faster than Hamilton. They were proved correct.
Charles being a couple of tenths faster than Lewis is not the big surprise that some pro-Lewis fanboy reporters are making it out to be. Neither is the gap as massive as some anti-Lewis fanboys are making it out to be.