The weekend of Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for Charles Leclerc is to be forgotten, out in Q2. In FP1 receives the news of the penalty for the PU change, then has to deal with food poisoning. He faces the qualifications with the weight of the 10 positions, yet he gives it his all for the last qualification of the season. Unfortunately it was of no use, his best time of Q2 is eliminated due to track limits. For him, Abu Dhabi turns into P20.
Charles Leclerc's words after the elimination in Abu Dhabi
Giving it all to start at least 11th for the Monegasque Ferrari driver did not go as he had hoped. Now he has no 10 penalty positions, which by qualifying P14 will still start P20The fight for the world championship is becoming increasingly difficult and bringing the trophy to Maranello now seems like an unattainable dream.

Thinking about the performance side, maybe it hurts more because even after the changes you had come back to life more? Mara asks Ferrari number 16.
"We'll see with Carlos soon in Q3. We had made the extra steps that were needed in Qualifying, I hope it will be the same in the race. The goal remains to beat McLaren. I was already expecting a very strong McLaren, let's hope it will be different in the race. Not to minimize my mistake, in the end I did track limits."
"7 positions to recover, but I'm always confident and I'll believe until the end. After FP1 it was a hard blow to know about the 10 positions to be served. Today is another blow, I hope to make up for it tomorrow."