Unreliability has already cost Verstappen lots of points in 2022 and it was perhaps inevitable that Leclerc would suffer his own bad luck at some stage during the championship fight.
As Matt Kew shows in our in-depth race coverage, what’s unfortunate for Leclerc is that his Barcelona retirement came when he was dominating a race in which Verstappen had made his first serious mistake of the year and was being hampered by another gremlin.
