Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc missed his flight to Austin, Texas, this week after an official at the airport closest to his Monaco home questioned his travel authorisation. The 24-year-old told reporters ahead of the United States Grand Prix, that he had made an unscheduled detour via New York after missing his original flight from Nice in the south of France due to the mix-up. 'My NIE (National Interest Exception) hadn't been accepted at the airport, so I couldn't take the original flight, so we changed the flight and went to New York last minute,' Leclerc explained. 'It was just one guy at the airport of Nice that for some reason didn't really know what was an NIE, and I got...
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