The issue was massive according to Charles and didn't get better. He improved because it didn't get worse after a while.
"It was impossible in the first 15 laps, the issue was getting a lot worse every lap," Leclerc said. "I was obviously basing my braking for Turn 9-10 with the previous lap, which obviously fell too late all the time, but the issue was getting a lot worse.
"Every time I would brake three meters earlier, but I would still look up, then at lap 15 or 20, the issue stabilised.
"The team told me on the radio that it was more than 100 degrees split between from front right and front left, which is huge.
"At that moment, I understood that the best thing I could do was just to bring the car home to the chequered flag.
"Honestly all in all, considering that the issue didn't get any better throughout the whole race... we started to be more consistent when the issue didn't worsen and every lap, which was helping me to be more consistent."