DChemTech wrote: ↑02 Aug 2021, 12:29
Diesel wrote: ↑02 Aug 2021, 12:03
Wouter wrote: ↑02 Aug 2021, 11:13
Both Helmut Marko and Christian Horner have indicated that Max his Hungary's engine is also defective and that Max will probably start with a grid penalty at Spa.
They seem to have said this yesterday on Servus TV. Has anyone here seen this and can anyone confirm it?
Horner said on SKY that Verstappens engine was fine, it only ran hot for 1 lap.
One or more Dutch F1 sites reported Horner was mentioning Max's PU was also screwed. But, in the race thread someone pointed out this was likely a translation/copy-paste error by said sites. Which seems plausible, the shunt wasn't that big. Anyway, I guess we'll see in the coming weeks what the status really is.
No, this was clarified today.
Per engine nr. 2 seems to be gone according to the values they saw. This engine is on the way to Honda.
Ves engine nr. 2 was leaking oil through cracks. Also on the way to Honda, most likely fatal as well.
If you look at the replacements, each PU is planned to do 7-8 races. The first one is at its end, both second engines did only 4 races. If both are fatal, Nr. 3 would have to do impossible 11 races.