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Ferrari had been pressured to alter the facility unit twice in Leclerc’s automobile on the season-opening race in Bahrain. Ferrari then moved to make use of a 3rd energy unit for the race in Saudi Arabia, breaking the principles that solely allow two adjustments in a whole season. As a outcome, the Monegasque was hit with a 10-place grid penalty
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was on Wednesday hit with a 10-place grid penalty for this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
The sanction was meted out by Formula One’s rulers the FIA after Ferrari had been pressured to alter the facility unit twice in Leclerc’s automobile on the season-opening race in Bahrain.
Ferrari then moved to make use of a 3rd energy unit for the race in Saudi Arabia, breaking the principles that solely allow two adjustments in a whole season.
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Leclerc, who’s already 25 factors adrift of double world champion Max Verstappen’s Red Bull after he failed to complete in Bahrain, faces additional penalties if extra elements have to be modified on his automobile forward of Sunday’s race in Jeddah.
Ferrari’s new workforce principal Fred Vasseur defined what had gone fallacious for the Scuderia in Bahrain.
“On Sunday, we had two totally different points,” he advised Formula1.com.
“The first one was on the Sunday morning, when we did the fire up, and the second one was in the race. Unfortunately, it was two times the control unit, the ECU.
“It’s something that we never experienced in the past. I hope now it’s under control, but we have a deep analysis on this.”
The former Alfa Romeo chief, who took over from Matteo Binotti after final yr’s reliability-hit marketing campaign, added: “Unfortunately, we’ll should take the penalty in Jeddah, as a result of now we have solely a pool of two management models for the season.”
In Bahrain, Leclerc was running a comfortable third when he experienced a loss of power on lap 47 and retired, Verstappen going on to win from Sergio Perez for a Red Bull 1-2.
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