Lewis Hamilton takes 10-place grid penalty at Turkish Grand Prix after using too many engine parts
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Updated 08/10/2021 at 14:46 GMT
The decision came after Hamilton was found to be using too many engine parts. He will avoid a full grid drop, as Mercedes have only taken one power-unit component - the internal combustion engine. Mercedes have gone over the limit to reduce the risk of Lewis Hamilton’s car suffering a failure during the Championship run-in.
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Lewis Hamilton will take a 10-place grid penalty at Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix.
They added a fourth part - one more than permitted - and as a result Hamilton was dealt with a 10-place grid engine penalty.
The Mercedes team have admitted that they only required a change of the internal combustion engine for reliability and performance reasons, whilst not needing a change on any other components, including the turbo, hybrid system, battery and electronics.
Hamilton is currently two points behind title rival Max Verstappen, and the penalty handed to the seven-time world champion will make it all the more difficult to catch the Red Bull racer.
Hamilton topped the FP1 classification in Istanbul. He recorded a lap time of 1:24.178, whilst Verstappen came in second with a gap of 0.425.
In Friday's second practice Hamilton followed up with a track record time of 1:23.804 on soft tyres, some six tenths of a second quicker than Verstappen.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc took second (+0.166) with Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas coming third (+0.410). Red Bull's Sergio Perez (+0.569) finished ahead of his team-mate Verstappen (+0.635).
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