Footage of Charles Leclerc watching Lando Norris get pole position speaks volumes following 10-place penalty

Charles Leclerc will start the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from the back of the grid due to a 10-place penalty and his reaction upon seeing Lando Norris take pole position speaks volumes.

This weekend sees the final round of this year's Formula 1 World Championship, with Red Bull driver Max Verstappen having already wrapped up the drivers' title.

Verstappen claimed his fourth successive crown at the Las Vegas Grand Prix with two rounds of the championship to spare.

However, the constructors' championship is still yet to be decided and will go down to the final race of the season with two of the sport's most famous teams in Ferrari or McLaren set to claim the crown.

McLaren lead Ferrari by 21 points heading into the weekend and are the favourites to claim their first constructors' title since 1998, particularly following the events of qualifying earlier on today.

Norris - who is battling with Leclerc to be runner-up to Verstappen in the drivers' standings - will start tomorrow's grand prix on pole position ahead of team-mate Oscar Piastri in a McLaren front row lockout.

Leclerc's team-mate Carlos Sainz will line up third, but the Monegasque himself will line up at the back of the grid after qualifying only 13th and with a 10-place penalty to come for exceeding the allowance of battery packs allowed for the season on his Ferrari.

The highest Leclerc could have started tomorrow's grand prix would have been 11th - which would have required him to qualify on pole position.

But in the second part of qualifying, Leclerc exceeded track limits and had his time deleted, which has ultimately condemned him to a back row starting place in the final race of the season.

Ferrari needed to have a strong weekend and have both cars running near the front in the hope of overturning the 21-point deficit they have to McLaren in the constructors' championship.

But with the McLarens locking out the front row and Leclerc being at the back of the grid, it is extremely likely that Ferrari's hopes of clinching a first constructors' crown since 2008 have now been extinguished, unless the race is incredibly eventful and sees a dramatic turnaround which puts both Ferraris at the front somehow and several places separating them from Norris and Piastri.

Footage has now emerged of Leclerc conducting interviews in the TV pen while the final shootout for the top 10 and pole position took place, and it is clear from the expressions on his face that he knows Ferrari face an incredibly difficult task tomorrow to win the constructors' title.

Leclerc is seen putting his hand to his face, pulling facial expressions suggesting disappointment and looking visibly deflated as he sees the McLaren drivers lock out the front row.

The Ferrari driver said: "In terms of qualifying, I don’t think we would have managed to beat the two McLarens. However, with my lap time deleted, P14 added to our 10 place grid penalty will make this a really challenging goal to achieve. Our race pace is okay but McLaren seem to be stronger.

"Our tyre degradation seems better than that of some of the others, so I hope this can give us some advantage. Anything can happen tomorrow and we will give it absolutely everything."