Charles Leclerc loses it and goes on sweary rant at Ferrari team during Las Vegas qualifying

Charles Leclerc fto rip with an explicit rant instantly aft qualifying for the Las Vegas Grand Prix with the Ferrari operator lining up successful 4th up of Sunday's race

Charles Leclerc launched a foul-mouthed rant aft qualifying for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

The Ferrari operator was hopeful of securing astatine slightest a spot connected the beforehand row, but yet finished successful fourth. George Russell landed rod whilst his team-mate Carlos Sainz besides lines up up of him. Alpine's Pierre Gasly produced a stunning thigh to get himself into third.

Leclerc, who ended successful fourth, felt determination was much successful the car and made his vexation known implicit squad radio. The Monegasque operator blamed the tyres for his flimsy deficiency of pace, which meant helium yet finished astir five-tenths of a 2nd down the Mercedes.

The 27-year-old, who was connected rod successful Las Vegas 12 months ago, said connected the radio: "S***, s***, s***. For f***'s sake. The tyres felt wholly different. I don't cognize why. So overmuch understeer."

Leclerc past took rod presumption successful Azerbaijan and his astir caller triumph was successful the United States conscionable a substance of weeks ago. Ferrari request some cars to execute good if they privation to instrumentality power of the Constructors' Championship with McLaren holding a 36 constituent advantage.

Three races stay and plentifulness of points are up for grabs. The 2 Ferraris are up of the McLarens up of Sunday's contention successful Nevada with Lando Norris successful sixth and Oscar Piastri a further 2 spots back.

Sainz has challenged the Italian outfit to spell each retired for the contention triumph tomorrow, adamant that they request to commencement taking the apical steps of the podium if they privation to pursuit down McLaren with specified small clip near successful the season.

"We request to enactment assured that time we tin beryllium warring astatine the beforehand adjacent much than today. So if contiguous we were adjacent successful qualy time we mightiness person a accidental astatine going for the triumph and that volition beryllium the target.

"Obviously passing and strategy volition beryllium a antithetic happening tomorrow. I consciousness similar contiguous Mercedes were precise bully astatine switching those tyres on. If you spot successful assemblage 1 they were flying, they were 3 tenths up connected us, and we were coming backmost arsenic the thigh was going on.

"But time is simply a cleanable sheet, caller commencement and we'll spot however the car is going connected precocious fuel. I honestly deliberation we request wins to bushed McLaren [to the Constructors' Championship]. So we request to win."