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Leclerc: Nothing would’ve changed knowing about Vettel’s penalty

Charles Leclerc says he wouldn’t have been able to improve his finishing position at the Canadian Grand Prix despite being unaware of Sebastian Vettel’s time penalty as he was “pushing hard” and unable to make up the deficit. The Ferrari driver admitted he wasn’t told by his team that Vettel was set to serve a five-second time penalty at the last race in Canada, meaning if he finished within five seconds of his teammate he would have been classified ahead of the German driver. By the chequered flag Leclerc finished just six seconds behind Vettel in third place, effectively meaning if he had bridged a one-second gap he would have taken second place in Montreal ahead of his...
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