Leclerc and Gasly disqualified from Chinese GP
Two drivers - Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly - are at serious risk of being removed from the Chinese Grand Prix classification after post-race checks.
Charles Leclerc has lost his fifth-place finish in Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix as his car was found to be below the FIA’s minimum weight limit after the race.
Leclerc suffered damage to the left-hand side of his front wing after making contact with the right rear of Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton through the elongated Turns 1-3 on the opening lap.
As he was still competitive with the damage, Ferrari elected not to change Leclerc’s front wing at his one and only pitstop, fearing the track position loss that the extra time to change the front sign would result in. 
Leclerc felt he had the pace to challenge for victory without the damage, instead he dropped a place to Max Verstappen late in the race and took the chequered flag in fifth place.
But after the race, once Ferrari was required to fit the spare front wing - 0.2kg heavier than the damaged one, according to the FIA - the car was then found to be below the minimum weight limit of 800kg.
The car weighed in at 799.0kg once the required two-litre sample of fuel was taken out of the car, 1kg below the minimum allowance.
The stewards, who have disqualified Leclerc, said Ferrari did not challenge the outcome of the measurements and cited no mitigating circumstances - instead admitting the underweight car was the result of a "genuine error".
Leclerc’s Ferrari wasn’t the only car to fall foul of this as Pierre Gasly, who finished 11th and would have inherited a point, was also found to have an underweight car by 1kg.
Alpine, too, admitted "genuine error" as Gaslty was likewise disqualified.
