Carlos Sainz’s engine fire in Austria was not only painful because it took away a valuable second position and left him 75 points behind Verstappen, but also because it reduced to ashes an engine that still had plenty of kilometers ahead of it, thus compromising even with the next one. race of the Spaniards. For this reason, Paul Ricard seems to be an appetizing scenario to punish, because it is easier to overtake than other tracks like the next one, the Hungaroring buzzard. In this way, everything indicates that Ferrari must change the whole machine of the Spaniard at Paul Ricard, making the Madrid driver late on Sunday.
However, as Marc Gené acknowledged on ‘DAZN F1’, Ferrari will not announce its decision not to give hints to Red Bull until Saturday, but it has indicated that changing the engine this weekend is a logical decision .
Before that happens, Ferrari announced on Friday that Carlos Sainz will install a new switchboard, something that will see him penalize 10 positions. And as Gené said, that could be more “indicative” that the replacement of the entire power unit could take place on Saturday.
In fact, that’s the same thing that Ferrari did with Leclerc: they changed the control unit in Canada on Friday and on Saturday they announced that they will change the combustion engine, the turbo, the MGU-H and the MGU-K, as a clear strategy not to be penalized in later races.
Source: La Verdad
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