Sainz set for new F1 engine and Monza startgrid penalty
Sep.6 - Carlos Sainz looks set to take a grid penalty at Ferrari's home Italian GP this weekend.
His teammate Charles Leclerc suffered a similar fate recently at Spa-Francorchamps, and the same is now expected for Spaniard Sainz.
"We will have to replace the engine very soon and take a grid penalty," he confirmed. "It will be a lighter power unit and that should help us because we are still a bit overweight."
Mattia Binotto
Team boss Mattia Binotto, however, is not ready to confirm that it will happen at Monza. "Sooner or later we have to take a penalty," said the Italian. "We hope that we only lose five or ten places rather than starting at the back."
Binotto also slammed 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg for suggesting that Ferrari's stream of strategy and pitstop errors this year should trigger urgent personnel changes.
"Even Formula 2 teams or F3 teams do a better job than Ferrari," Rosberg said after Zandvoort.
Binotto hit back: "We will not change people - that is my answer to Rosberg.
"We have great people already and it has been proven that what is more important in sport is stability and that we make sure we are improving day-by-day and race-by-race."
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So soon following the French GP?
Yeah but Curly, are you improving?
One,Two,Three Four that's 4 wheels on a car...! And wow those Ferrari engines are fragile, it's getting Pasta joke now
Seems like the normal course of things for Ferrari these days...
But the truth is everyone has to manage engine changes and penalties under these rules and factor distance usage as well etc.
That's why they pay engineers to do that work
We already have the evidence of who is a success
We wish the rest luck or see you next year
F1 is a brutal beast hell bent on punishing everyone except the winners get a bunch of money
yeah and Ferrari are ManaginG to blow theres up quite a lot this year, so what I think your saying is Ferrari have rubbish engineers
And management
Funny how GR called the shots for softs & the team take credit for it. Lol