Ferrari takes Baku penalty now while Mercedes waits: why two teams chose opposite engine strategies
- Baku: 7 events in the last 90 days
What happened
Ferrari and Mercedes face the same engine penalty dilemma heading into the Azerbaijan Grand Prix but have arrived at opposite solutions. Ferrari is absorbing Charles Leclerc's grid penalty at Baku with a fresh power unit , while Mercedes is banking George Russell's until the Americas triple-header, where the team's ADUO upgrade is expected to arrive, collapsing what would otherwise be two grid drops into one.
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