Ferrari's Charles Leclerc will be hit with a 10-place penalty at this weekend's SaudiArabianGP, the first engine-related grid drop of the 2023 F1 season
by 25 points after his DNF and already appears to have a mountain to climb if he is to win the 2023 world title.
Reliability was one of the key priorities for new team principal Fred Vasseur to fix over the winter but it seems like Ferrari have so far been unable to shake-off the gremlins that plagued their 2022 campaign. "There were two issues, one on the Sunday morning when we did the fire-up and one in the race," Vasseur explained.
"Unfortunately, it was two times the control electronics box and it's something that we never experienced in the past. "I hope that now we have it under control. We have a deep analysis on this. But unfortunately, we will have to take the penalty in Jeddah because we only have a pool of two control electronics for the season."
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