Max Verstappen is set to start Sunday\u2019s Sao Paulo Grand Prix from the pit lane after Red Bull made sweeping changes to his car off the back of a disappointing Qualifying display.<\/p>\n
Verstappen<\/a> dramatically dropped out in the Q1 phase at Interlagos as his and Red Bull\u2019s Sprint weekend struggles worsened \u2013 the Dutchman complaining that he had \u201cno grip\u201d and had to \u201cmassively under-drive\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n With a long race ahead from P16 on the grid, Red Bull have elected to fit a new Honda power unit to Verstappen\u2019s RB21, as well as making various set-up changes under Parc Ferme conditions, triggering a move to the pit lane for lights out.<\/p>\n On Sunday morning, the FIA confirmed that a new Internal Combustion Engine (ICE), Turbocharger (TC), Motor Generator Unit-Heat (MGU-H), Motor Generator Unit-Kinetic (MGU-K), Energy Store (ES) and Control Electronics (CE) have been fitted to Verstappen\u2019s car \u2013 exceeding his season allocations for all elements.<\/p>\n Haas\u2019 Esteban Ocon is another driver to have taken on a fresh ICE, similarly going beyond his allocation, while Verstappen also has a new Exhaust System (EX), but without exceeding the limit on that front.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the above listed PU elements were changed during Parc Ferme without the approval of the FIA Technical Delegate,\u201d read a pre-race note from F1\u2019s governing body.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso changes have been made to the set-up of the suspension of car number 01 (Verstappen) without the approval of the FIA technical delegate.<\/p>\n \u201cTherefore car numbers 01 and 31 (Ocon) should now be required to start the race from the pit lane according to Article 40.9 a) of the 2025 Formula One Sporting Regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n Verstappen now faces an even bigger task in Sunday\u2019s race as he looks to remain in title contention, a year on from his remarkable recovery from P17 to victory in torrential rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen is set to start Sunday\u2019s Sao Paulo Grand Prix from the pit lane after Red Bull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-253174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}