Red Bull is very close to receiving sanctions from places on the grid for exceeding the engine limit for the season in both the act of Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen, after Thursday Honda confirmed that they will have to use the third power unit, after the previous ones were rendered useless by the setbacks of the last two Formula 1 Grand Prix.
This was reported by F1.com, official site of the category, which consulted with the Japanese manufacturer.
Red Bull’s problems come, first from the collision at Silverstone between Verstappen and Hamilton, where an engine was lost, and then the collision caused by Valtteri Bottas in Hungary where both Checo Pérez and Max were seriously injured.
But there are still 12 races left in the year and it seems inevitable that the Austrian team will have to take penalties for using an engine room in both cases and for issues that were not caused by them, but by cars from other teams .
The Red Bull boss told Hungary, quotes F1.com, that he had “very little chance” of avoiding such sanctions.
“We’ve had a lot of bad luck in the last two races. It’s been a brutal thing in parts, in damage, in engines. But we’ll shake up and come out fighting in the second half of the championship,” Horner said.
The vast majority of teams, F1.com notes, are still in their second engine of the year.
Asked about it by the specialized portal motorsport.com, Christian Horner said that it is frustrating to go through this as it is not about the engines having ‘flown’ or a reliability problem, but “the accidents that we have not caused”. .