Scuderia Ferrari elected to change the engine in Kimi Räikkönen’s SF71-H after the Finn suffered a power unit-related technical glitch which sidelined the Finn, depriving him of doing any race run simulations in the second free practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix. The 2007 world champion was completing qualifying simulation when his Ferrari started emitting a puff of smoke which prompted Räikkönen to switch off his car and roll back slowly to the pit. Ferrari engineers could immediately realize malfunctions on the telemetry and they did not want to take any risks and abandon the work in the second practice session. After the first investigations, Ferrari could not decide if...
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