A few hours before the start of the Singapore Grand Prix, change the starting grid! In fact, on a track where you don't expect penalties, comes from the box Mercedes surprising news.
Russell changes power unit: the penalty arrives
Mercedes has in fact communicated problems on the W13 of George Russell who will be forced to start from the back. The difficulties are related at the accelerator which remained open by 10% even when braking and cornering. A bad problem that conditioned the weekend of the English driver who in fact was unable to qualify for Q3 in the qualification of yesterday. The choice of the Brackley team was therefore very clear: to remedy this situation, it was chosen to fit a new power unit with Russell who therefore, instead of starting in eleventh place, will be called upon to make a great comeback on a track where overtaking will not be easy at all, starting from the pit lane.
Wolff's explanation
He had admitted that there were some problems with his W13 all the same Toto Wolff who had commented on yesterday's qualifying in this way.
“We had seen a problem in the FP1 session and it came back in qualifying. It's as if George always has 10% of the throttle open even when braking and cornering, and this in Singapore is a problem you just can't have. And what's more, the brakes also had some anomalies."
What happens to FantaF1?
With this consequence, the Sunday of the Fantamanagers who have selected Russell for this weekend does not start in the best way. In fact, the English driver takes a nice 0 as his initial score. Who knows, however, that it can give many emotions with overtaking in the race.
STATEMENT SOURCE: Motorsport.com Italy