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Leclerc drops to seventh after multiple penalties

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc has been relegated from sixth to seventh at the Japanese Grand Prix after being hit with two separate time penalties worth a combined 15 seconds.

Leclerc visited the stewards after the race to explain his first-lap clash with Max Verstappen, which led to the Red Bull driver calling him "irresponsible". Leclerc had drifted wide and into the side of Verstappen's car at Turn 2. That incident earned him a five-second penalty.

However, Leclerc had another 10 seconds added to his time post-race for Ferrari ignoring the FIA's calls to pit the Monaco native to fix his front wing immediately after that clash.