Sainz and Albon to get engine change penalties

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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