Max Verstappen makes penalty-free engine change after Friday woes

Red Bull makes penalty-free 💞engine change on Max Verstappen's Red Bull F1 car.

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

Red Bull have changed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s power unit after the issues which hampered his Friday practice at the F1 Mexico City Grand Prix.

The reigning world champion will not face a grid drop for the change because Red Bull have reverted to another engine from Verstappen’s pool “as a result of intake air circuit leakage w﷽hich could not be thoroughly resolved”.

Verstappen had complained about a lack of power during openi🌄ng practice at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, before issues continued to hamper the Dutchman in the extended aftꦓernoon session, restricting him to just four laps in FP2.

Verstappen rued his Friday as “u❀seless” after the𝕴 problems which arose.

"From the engine side we are ch🍨ecking, I don't know exactly what it is," Verstappen said after FP2. "But yeah, from my side [it was] a pretty much useless day. I did like four or five laps, and that's not much to read into.

"It'll be alright [without a penalty]. I never really had a good run🦩. I did four or five laps in total and that's even with some 𓃲long run laps in it. So a day to forget.”

V♋erstappen holds a 57-point lead over McLaren’s Lando Norris in the drivers’ championship with five 💛rounds remaining this season.

Speaking about Verstappen’s pool of permitted components for the rest of the year, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said on Friday: “I don't think you're ever safe, as♎ we've just seen in t𝓰he last session.

“But hopefully, that's just a small issue. I think it's something probably more of a question for our engine partner as 𝓰to how comfortable they feel getting to the end of the year. But you're always on the limit.”

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