Listen to this article Leclerc was on course for a comfortable third place behind the dominant Red Bulls of winner Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez and was just looking to salvage a result on Ferrari home soil after teammate Carlos Sainz was taken out on the first lap. But on lap 53 of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Leclerc spun off at the Variante Alta chicane, damaging his front wing after contact with the outside wall. An additional pitstop for a new front wing demoted Leclerc from third to ninth, although on fresh soft tyres the championship leader managed to climb back up to a sixth-place finish. Afterwards Leclerc rued his costly mistake, saying he “paid the price” for being “too greedy.” “It is a big shame,” he told Sky TV. “Whatever happened before the spin, these are details and it’s part of racing, but I believe that the spin shouldn’t have happened today. “P3 was the best I could do; we didn’t have the pace for much more. And I was too greedy, and I paid the price for it and lost seven potential points, compared to my third place I was before, so it is a shame. “It’s seven points that are valuable at the end of the championship for …