In what appears to be a huge blow to Max Verstappen's championship prospects this season, the Red Bull driver has received a grid drop penalty for exceeding the
's championship prospects this season, the Red Bull driver will take a grid drop penalty for exceeding the number of power units allowed this season, as confirmed by the team's senior advisor Helmut Marko. Verstappen will be on his sixth power unit during theweekend at Interlagos, while the regulations permit four power units per season.
The Dutchman faced a challenging start to the Mexico weekend after he reported a loss of engine power in free practice, followed by an unusual sound emanating from the engine. While Red Bull replaced the problematic power unit with an older one to avoid the penalty, this temporary fix proved insufficient to sustain him for the remainder of the 24-race season.
If Red Bull chooses to replace additional components of the power unit, Verstappen will have to start from the back of the F1 grid. Speaking about the events that unfolded in Mexico and Red Bull's latest challenges even before the start of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix weekend, Marko wrote in his"The pace was also not right because the engine problem meant that a different engine had to be installed, which had reached the end of its life and was actually no longer planned for racing.
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