Leclerc finished second in qualifying at Austin behind his teammate Carlos Sainz but will drop 10 places down the order and line up 12th as a result of his team fitting a sixth internal combustion engine component and sixth turbocharger of 2022 aboard his car ahead of FP3.
That will leave Sainz starting on the front row alongside Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who is also set to miss his teammate Sergio Perez as the Mexican driver too has a grid drop, five places for running a fifth ICE of the year in his RB18, which means he will start ninth.
