Charles Leclerc: Austin DSQ a “complete surprise” after “zero wear” in practice
Leclerc and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton were excluded from the race results after the FIA found that the floor pl💮anks underneath their cars ha⛄d suffered excessive wear.
It meant that Leclerc lost out on sixth at the Circuit of the Americas, compounding a frustrating race for th🐭e Ferrari driver.
Speaking ahead of this weekend’s Mexico City Grand Pri🥀x, Leclerc refused to make excuses 💞for his DSQ.
“Honestly, it was a c🙈omplete surprise,” Leclerc said. "Because on Friday when we changed the car, there was zero wear, so it's not like we were touching anywhere.
“Then you get to the race and obviously, things haven't changedᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ, but we were illegal.
“Rules are rules, and they n💧eed to be respected, so it's not an excuse to say that on Friday we were fine. We need to look into it to try and bett꧃er anticipate what is going to be the wear.”
Leclerc revealed that Ferrari were still not concerned by the level of wear after the Saturday s🍨print race.
“Also on the Saturday night, we could see more or less where we are touc🦋hing and we thought the🌠re was still plenty of margin,” he added.
“And then we finished the Sunday and it was a big surp𓃲rise, so we are still in the analysing part of where exactly did we wear the plank more than what we expected.”
With a sharp eye for F1’s controversies and storylines, Connor is the 𝔉heartbeat of our unbiased reporting.