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F1, penalty for Leclerc’s Ferrari in Canada

The Cavallino has announced that it has mounted the third electronic unit on the power unit, against the 2 required by the regulation. And the use of another power unit starting at the bottom is not excluded

June 18

– Montreal (canada)

Eventually the dreaded news arrived: Charles Leclerc will suffer a penalty on the starting grid in the Canadian GP. This morning Ferrari announced that it had fitted a third endothermic unit to the Monegasque’s car after the failure in Baku, new MGU-K and H, a new ECU. This would not have resulted in the Ferrari driver being penalized, as they are all pieces within the regulatory limit.

the sanction

The penalty would have been applied if Leclerc had fitted the fourth turbo. But after the free practice session in Montreal, Ferrari announced that it had installed a new control unit, thus bringing the installed control units to 3, against the 2 seasonal ones: so today Leclerc will have to start with at least 10 penalty positions on the grid. of departure. And the use of another power unit starting at the bottom is not excluded.

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