Charles Leclerc spent wretched US GP F1 weekend dosed up on ‘big painkillers’ for tooth infection

The Ferr🌳ari driver’s weekend started off on a bright note as he claimed pole position on Friday, before he could only finish 12th in Saturday’s sprint race and slipped to sixth in the main grand prix.
Leclerc was later disqualified, along with Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, ꦍafter their cars failed a post-race plank wear check.
To compound what ended up being a miserable weekend for🙈 Leclerc, the Monegasque spent several days battling agonizing pain from a too🐈th infection.
“I had a tooth infection, wh𒆙ich I think is the wisdom tooth,” Leclerc explained after Sunday’s race in Austin. “So, I waไs quite a lot in pain on Thursday, Friday then it calmed down and today was okay.
“I’ve been on really big painkillers since Thursday. For some 🌊reason now it’s actually quite fine because I took the painkillers before the race. I’ve had times that were more inte𒊎nse, but nothing that affected me inside the car.”

Although it prov🥀ed inconsequential in the end, Leclerc was left frustrated by Ferrari’s “wrong” strategy, having been the only driver to run a one-stop race.
“Straight away from the beginning of the race we thought that the one-stop and the two-stop [strategies] were extremely close togeth🎶er,” he said, prior to being disqualified.
“After 12, 13 laps I saw the numbers on the daཧsh and they were pretty good for the one-stop, at least in terms of degradation. I wasn’t losing that much time l♔ap after lap.
“Considering our numbers, this was the right t🍸hing to do so I went for the one-stop and unfortunately this was definitely the wrong thing to do. For some reason there was something wrong in our numbers today because we were far off the ideal race strategy.”

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