Marcus Ericsson gets grid penalty for Italian GP after engine change

Marcus Ericsson will drop 10 places on the grid for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix&nওbsp;after Sauber changed the engine on his Formula 1 power unit ahead of final practice at Monza.

Ericsson suffered a high-speed crash during second practice on Friday afternoon after his DRS failed to close at the end of the mai🉐n straight, forcing Sauber𝄹 to break curfew in order to build the Swede's car up around a new chassis ahead of Saturday's running.

Ericsson gets grid penalty after engine change

Marcus Ericsson will drop 10 places on the grid for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix after Sauber changed the engine on 𒅌his Formula 1 power unit ahead of🍒 final practice at Monza.

Ericsson ♊suffered a high-speed crash during second practice on Friday afterno🦹on after his DRS failed to close at the end of the main straight, forcing Sauber to break curfew in order to build the Swede's car up around a new chassis ahead of Saturday's running.

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In the latest FIA technical bulletin issued following the start of FP3 at Monza, it was confirmed that Ericsson had moved onto his fourth internal combustion engine (ICE) of the season, exceeding his season ꦫallocation for the fir🎶st time.

As a result, Ericsson will drop 10 places on the grid for Sunday's race, but is still due to start ahead of both Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg who took complete new power units fไor the weekend,🥃 resigning them to the rear of the field.

Ericsson was not the only driver to experience a problem with DRS through practice as Renault's Nico Hulkenberg also suffer💛ed an issue in FP3 on Saturday.

Speaking before the final se🔴ssion, FIA race director Charlie Whiting said Ericsson's problem had been caused by a design flaw and that he did not think there were any problems with the use of DRS on high-speed tracks such as Monza.

"We’ve been throu꧅gh it with Sauber and we know what happened. It was a small design flaw, which they corrected," ൲Whiting said.

"But generally speaking we don’t have any concerns wiꦉth DRS on high-speed circuits."

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