The explosive power of Lewis Hamilton’s power unit in Brazil resulted in thered alert at Red Bull. To the point that Milton Keynes really wondered if it was appropriate to introduce one fifth drive unit in Max Verstappen’s car, to better face the season finale. Director Helmut Marko, at first absolutely opposed to this hypothesis, has just admitted the possibility of a similar scenario, which would come true, however, in the last race, in Abu Dhabi, and not in Jeddah.
Marko’s partial reverse proves that Honda And Red Bull have talked for a long time about the possibility of changing the engine to compete for the World Championship with Mercedes rivals to the best of their ability. On the other hand, in Saudi Arabia Hamilton will mount the ‘supersonic’ engine of Brazil, while Max has an engine mounted in Sochi (six Grands Prix ago), with an old age of about 2 thousand kilometers: a huge amount. According to today’s edition of the Corriere dello Sport, Honda had long warned Red Bull about the need for a power unit change: “Honda would like to replace it, to have full power and not risk reliability. No more: the Japanese wanted to change it already in Qatar, where the team had stood firm without imagining that Max would be penalized for not respecting the double yellow flag. And now they are ready to raise their arms in the face of a possible problem, possibly attributing responsibility to Red Bull“.
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