“I was able to recharge the batteries and I needed it”said Charles Leclerc at the press conference before the Belgian F1 GP. He needed it for everything that happened in the early part of the championship, where various reliability problems and flaws in Ferrari’s strategies took away many points in the fight for the title. The Monegasque is 80 points behind leader Verstappen with 9 races to go. He returned with another illusion, but at the same time, he knew that things could be more complicated from the first start this weekend, because he could be penalized for changing the engine (5 positions), putting a propeller with higher performance, which will leave him at a positional disadvantage to Max on race day.
This season, at Ferrari they are satisfied with the power they have achieved with their engine, and Mattia Binotto made it clear at the end of the first part of the course that Red Bull and Ferrari are at maximum speed on the straight. However, they had to improve the reliability of the heat enginesomething that has not been resolved, and an important update remains to be shown that could take Leclerc this weekend.
Despite the fact that engines have been frozen until 2026 since March 1, this freeze is not total, as the FIA has allowed the teams to present news on their power units until September 1 related to energy storage areas (batteries), MGU-K and control electronics specification improvement. In other words, the deadline is this Belgian GP, so the engine should be ready for the weekend.
That electrical part is what Ferrari is improving with a new engine that Leclerc could field from this Belgian GP. Should he drive it, that would take the Charles 5 position on Sunday’s starting grid. On the contrary, rumors suggest that this engine will give the Ferrari 15 more horsepower.
The fact that Sainz was forced to change the engine early after the fire suffered by Carlos’ unit in Austria, means that the Spaniard is not yet due to ride this new update, running out of extra horses because he has not . punished again for questions of strategy and the life that still remains in the new machine he mounted just two races ago, in France.
Source: La Verdad
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