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Red Bull's ‘doubts' over Verstappen engine change
Honda F1 boss Masashi Yamamoto has revealed it was he that convinced Helmut Marko to change Max Verstappen’s engine at Sochi. Red Bull announced the decision during FP2 for the Russian Grand Prix, on the Friday afternoon, to take the engine penalty that had been hanging over Verstappen. The lingering problem was that two Honda power units had sustained damage when the Dutch driver was involved in incidents at the British and Hungarian Grands Prix. That left Verstappen almost certainly needing a fourth new engine this season – one more than the maximum and therefore facing a penalty that would mean him starting a race from the back of the grid. With three power units to last a 22-race...
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