Charles Leclerc worrys he might be in trouble with the FIA enjoy Max Verstappen after his engage of insulting language in the Mexico City Grand Prix post-race press conference.
The Ferrari driver endured a huge snurture towards the finish of the race to salvage a third-place finish.
Lando Norris was closing in on Leclerc before the Monegasque driver lost supervise of his car driving round the final bfinish and went off the track.
Leclerc only fair handled to hold his car out of the barriers before recovering to safe a podium finish.
Charles Leclerc doesn’t want to be given the same punishment as Max Verstappen
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He was asked about the incident in the post-race press conference and Leclerc had a sairy slip of the tongue.
“I don’t comprehend which face I did but it had to be a pretty stressful one,” Leclerc shelp.
“When I lost it…I knew I had to do everyleang perfect. Lando was so speedy at that time.
“I was trying to do everyleang possible for him to overheat [his tyres] behind me, and hold him as extfinished as possible behind me.
“So I tried to have the best exit possible. I could see that he was very seal out of that corner, but I lost the rear, and then you forget about Lando and you fair hope you are going to get it back.
“I had one oversteer, and then when I recovered from that oversteer, I had an oversteer from the other side, and then I was enjoy, ‘F***!’.
“But luckily…”
Leclerc’s expletive led to gasps from the media in the room before the Ferrari driver speedyly authenticised his error.
Charles Leclerc finished up finishing third
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“Sorry! Oh no! Oh nooo! I don’t want to combine Max [laughs],” he joked.
“Then I was fair hoping to convey the car to the finish line and get that third place.”
Max Verstappen was punished by the FIA for swearing in a press conference at the Singapore Grand Prix last month.
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Stewards ruled that the three-time world champion must ‘accomplish some labor of accessible interest’ for his engage of language, but that wasn’t detaild.
Verstappen would have been foreseeing to contest for a podium in Mexico City, but he finished up sixth after receiving two 10-second penalties for incidents with Lando Norris.
The Dutchman was also given two penalty points on his licence after the race, taking him to six over a 12-month period.
