Max Verstappen faces grid penalty today in Brazil

Max Versta𓂃ppen will take a grid penalty for Sunday's race in Brazil.

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

The FIA have confirmed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen will take a five-place grid penalty for today’s Sao Pa🌼ulo Grand Prix after taking a new ICE engine component.

It meanꦗs Verstappen won’t start any higher than sixth on the grid for Sunday’s grand prix at Interlagos.

Bad weather on Saturday meant qualifying was postponed until Sunday. A rearranged tiওmetable on Sunday features q✱ualifying followed by the grand prix.

But Verstappen's title battle wꩲith McLaren's Lando Norris has taken a setback with his penalty in Brazil.

The good new𒁏s for Verstappen is that it’s only a five-🌟place grid penalty.

It’s his sixth ICE component꧟ of the year - he took his fifth at Spa,🉐 which resulted in a 10-place grid penalty.

In the FIA press conference on Th♛ursday in Sao Paulo, Verstappen admitted an engine penalty was inevitable heading into the final stretch of the campaign.

He said: “I haven't heard anything yet. It's not ♛discussed, but I know that I will have to take one at ꩲsome point. So we'll see.”

New floor for Perez

On the other side of the garage, Red Bull have changed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s chassis.

Perez endured a nightmare weekend in Mexico City.

He was knocke🗹d out in Q1 before finishing 17th (last) on home soil.

As quoted by The Race, chief e💯ngineer Paul Monaghan confirmed Perez 🌜will use a different chassis.

He said: “We've changeꦡd him back into a different chassis. He asked if we can: yeah, fin൲e, OK.

“The boy𝓰s g💞ot a bit of work but they didn't mind so there we go.”

Perez will al🎐so run a slightly different floor to Verstappe✱n.

“Checo is on a dif💫ferent edge specification from Max,” M꧟onaghan added.

“If 𝕴you look at the edge wing itse🌺lf it's subtly different. It's a small difference.

“ꦦThe magnitude is, I would argue, small enough that it's not going to cause him to have a significant♚ difference to Max.

🍒“We've done it like that purely and simply because it's the best way to service two cars and ensure that we can service them fairly with spares.”

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