"I would not say I'm surprised," the double world champion said.

By 95 percent of cases like this in the past, Leonard would become double champion.

He followed up his first championship with a second in 2011, becoming the youngest double world champion.

He thus became his country's only double Olympic champion at only 24 years of age.

Perhaps Hamilton would have made a mistake in pushing to catch the double world champion.

Thanks to this success, the double European champion's race truck will also be labelled with the number 1 during the 2013 season.

Just one year later he became double champion of Yugoslavia in karting.

He has five more races in which to score the one point that will make him the sport's youngest double champion.

Alonso thus became the youngest double champion in the sport's history.

Kwiatkowski is also double European champion (road race 2007, time trial 2008).