Daniil Kvyat, Toro Rosso, Red Bull Ring, 2019

Sainz and Albon to get engine change penalties

2019 Austrian Grand Prix

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Carlos Sainz Jnr and Alexander Albon will incur grid penalties for changing power unit parts at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix.

The McLaren driver has taken a complete new Renault power unit for this weekend’s race. However he has exceeded his allocation of all six components – engine, turbo, MGU-H, MGU-K, energy store and control electronincs – and therefore will have to start the race from the back of the grid.

Albon did not take the new Honda power unit specification at the previous round while team mate Daniil Kvyat did, so that Toro Rosso would avoid both drivers taking penalties at the same race. He incurred penalties for taking a new engine, turbo, MGU-H and MGU-K.

Valtteri Bottas has also changed MGU-K on his Mercedes power unit this weekend.

Engine components used so far

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No. Car Engine Driver ICE TC MGU-H MGU-K ES CE
26 Toro Rosso Honda Daniil Kvyat 4 4 4 3 3 3
55 McLaren Renault Carlos Sainz Jnr 4 4 4 3 3 3
27 Renault Renault Nico Hulkenberg 4 4 4 3 2 3
23 Toro Rosso Honda Alexander Albon 4 3 3 3 2 2
3 Renault Renault Daniel Ricciardo 3 3 3 2 2 2
33 Red Bull Honda Max Verstappen 3 3 3 2 2 2
10 Red Bull Honda Pierre Gasly 3 3 3 2 2 2
18 Racing Point Mercedes Lance Stroll 3 3 3 2 1 1
63 Williams Mercedes George Russell 2 2 2 1 3 3
99 Alfa Romeo Ferrari Antonio Giovinazzi 2 2 2 1 2 3
20 Haas Ferrari Kevin Magnussen 2 2 2 1 2 3
4 McLaren Renault Lando Norris 2 2 2 2 2 2
8 Haas Ferrari Romain Grosjean 2 2 2 1 2 2
7 Alfa Romeo Ferrari Kimi Raikkonen 2 2 2 1 2 2
5 Ferrari Ferrari Sebastian Vettel 2 2 2 1 1 2
16 Ferrari Ferrari Charles Leclerc 2 2 2 1 1 2
77 Mercedes Mercedes Valtteri Bottas 2 2 2 2 1 1
11 Racing Point Mercedes Sergio Perez 2 2 2 1 1 1
31 Williams Mercedes Robert Kubica 2 2 2 1 1 1
44 Mercedes Mercedes Lewis Hamilton 2 2 2 1 1 1

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2 comments on “Sainz and Albon to get engine change penalties”

  1. Valtteri Bottas has also changed MGU-K on his Mercedes power unit this weekend.

    I think this should be the headline. Mercedes changing a PU element (and let’s see what the analysis of the removed PU from today brings).

  2. Ok, so what does this mean for qualifying – who will end up starting 20th? Albon? Sainz? Hulk?

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