News Details

Alonso, Merhi sustain grid penalties

McLaren Honda Fernando Alonso is set to start his 250th Formula 1 race from the back of the grid in Russia after sustaining an array of engine penalties after Honda elected to fit new parts to his car. Honda has used its remaining four upgrade tokens on fitting new parts, focusing on the engine’s combustion chambers, the turbocharger and the MGU-H. Alonso's McLaren has been fitted with a 10th ICE [Internal Combustion Engine], 9th TC, 9th MGU-H and seventh CE [Control Electronics]. Alonso has thus picked up a 25 place grid drop, consigning him to a back of the grid start at the Sochi Autodrom. Manor Marussia returnee Roberto Merhi will also sustain a penalty after the outfit changed the...
Full Story »
8y ago from F1Zone.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Alonso set for Sochi penalty after Honda uses...

Fernando Alonso will take a grid penalty this weekend at Sochi after it...

Honda uses final four engine tokens for Russian GP

Honda will reportedly use its final four engine development tokens at...
8y ago from GrandPrixTimes.com

Honda uses remaining engine tokens ahead of Russian GP

Honda has used its remaining four engine development tokens for this...
8y ago from Motorsport.com

Honda spend final four tokens

Fernando Alonso will likely start Sunday's Russian GP from the back of...
8y ago from PlanetF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Ducati: Bastianini's COTA MotoGP podium an...

Ducati General Manager Gigi Dall’Igna labelled Enea Bastianini's podium...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Pourchaire to make IndyCar debut in Long Beach with...

Arrow McLaren has announced that the reigning Formula 2 champion Theo...

IndyCar's new Aeroscreen makes early debut at Long...

The NTT IndyCar Series will have teams fit a new version of the Aeroscreen...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Sebastian Ogier tops Croatia Rally shakedown

Sébastien Ogier announced his return to FIA World Rally Championship...
19h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Premier League GW34 & FA Cup semi-finals predictions:...

Sports Mole takes on Spinn drummer and Aston Villa fan Louis O'Reilly for...
1h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.