Mercedes introduces ‘Phase 2.1’ power unit upgrade in France

Mercedes confirms it has introduced an upgrade for its Formula 1 power unit at this weekend’s French Grand Prix.

The team described the upgrade as a ‘Phase 2.1’ which goes beyond the ‘Phase 2’ development it planned to introduce at the previous race in Canada. The new development is being used by all six Mercedes-powered drivers.

It ran the new development for the first time in today’s practice session and intends to use them throughout the rest of this race weekend.

The Mercedes, Force India and Williams cars are all using new engines, turbochargers and MGU-Hs.

Lewis Hamilton headed both of today’s practice sessions for Mercedes.

Power unit components used so far

No.	Car	Engine	Driver	ICE	TC	MGU-H	MGU-K	ES	CE
10	Toro Rosso	Honda	Pierre Gasly	4	4	4	3	2	2
28	Toro Rosso	Honda	Brendon Hartley	3	3	3	2	2	2
3	Red Bull	TAG Heuer	Daniel Ricciardo	3	3	3	2	2	2
33	Red Bull	TAG Heuer	Max Verstappen	2	3	2	3	1	2
8	Haas	Ferrari	Romain Grosjean	2	3	3	1	1	2
7	Ferrari	Ferrari	Kimi Raikkonen	2	3	2	1	1	2
55	Renault	Renault	Carlos Sainz Jnr	2	2	3	1	1	2
27	Renault	Renault	Nico Hulkenberg	2	2	3	1	1	2
20	Haas	Ferrari	Kevin Magnussen	2	2	2	1	2	2
77	Mercedes	Mercedes	Valtteri Bottas	2	2	2	1	2	2
5	Ferrari	Ferrari	Sebastian Vettel	2	2	2	1	1	2
2	McLaren	Renault	Stoffel Vandoorne	2	2	2	1	1	2
14	McLaren	Renault	Fernando Alonso	2	2	2	2	1	1
11	Force India	Mercedes	Sergio Perez	2	2	2	1	2	1
31	Sauber	Ferrari	Charles Leclerc	2	2	2	1	1	1
9	Sauber	Ferrari	Marcus Ericsson	2	2	2	1	1	1
44	Mercedes	Mercedes	Lewis Hamilton	2	2	2	1	1	1
31	Force India	Mercedes	Esteban Ocon	2	2	2	1	1	1
18	Williams	Mercedes	Lance Stroll	2	2	2	1	1	1
35	Williams	Mercedes	Sergey Sitorkin	2	2	2	1	1	1

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