“No, the engine, no”. So by radio Carlos Sainz he expressed all his disappointment for a second place that seemed close at hand and went up in smoke and with it also the second double of the season for Ferrari after the one he scored at the beginning of the season in Bahrain. The retirement of the Spanish driver and the final apprehension of Charles Leclerc’s accelerator pedal are the alarm bells on the reliability side that leave the warning light on in the Ferrari home, even if from a performance point of view in Austria the F1-75 have enchanted dominating the weekend in a much clearer way than recorded the points nibbled in the standings by Max Verstappen and Red Bull.
In the final press conference Mattia Binotto ruled out that Sainz’s knockout could have causes attributable to those that stopped Charles Leclerc in Spain in Barcelona. The hypothesis that the reasons for the retirement may instead be similar to those that stopped Charles Leclerc in Baku cannot be ruled out as confirmed by the team principal of the Scuderia di Maranello: “It is very likely that the engine had the same defect as Charles’s in Baku“the words of Binotto reported by the German newspaper Auto Motor und Sport. The analyzes that will be carried out in the factory in Maranello will shed light on what happened, even if it will not be easy for the Ferrari technicians to carry out measurements on an engine that has really suffered extensive damage, as evidenced by the live images and the photos taken subsequently.
For Carlos Sainz in two weeks in France the same scenario experienced by Charles Leclerc in Canada could occur, with the introduction of two fresh power units at the price of a single departure from the back of the grid to revive an engine park that had already reached the three drive units allowed by the regulation before the knockout of yesterday.
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