After Japanese GP that he saw Max Verstappen winning again, F1 he allows himself a week of "rest". Teams are ready to take stock of the situation one last time this year, and then dive into the season finale.
Team at the limit or beyond the threshold: four units are not enough?
The fight for a better position in the constructors' standings it lit up. Many factors will determine the final result: pilot errors, wall errors, penalty. It is precisely this last aspect that is worrying all teams. In fact, all the stables are you reach the limit of usable power units (with some even having it exceeded). So everyone continues to wonder if 4 units are too few. Discussion that has always been circulating in the paddock and generates a lot confusion. The FIA will therefore have to find a compromise to continue to have an approach planet at the same time, satisfy the teams.
Power unit penalties: here's who's really at risk
All the teams, starting from Red Bull up to the bottom of the ranking, they are at risk. Those who have already gone beyond the limit of 4 PUs used are the Ferrari powered ones, precisely Zhou and both Haas. The engine, however, proved to be more solid Mercedes: the teams assembling the German components arrived in Japan with only 3 engines used. For the Milton Keynes stable, however, the was used fourth power unit right in the last grand prix. The only driver who can afford to change components without incurring penalties is Lando Norris, but limited to turbocharger, MGU-H e MGU-K.
Another piece that can lead to a penalty is the broadcast. Here too, more than 50% of drivers are at risk of penalisation. They are exceptions the two Mercedes, the two McLarens, Fernando Alonso e Valtteri Bottas.
Article by Francesco Orlando
