At the end of the second free practice session for the 2022 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, which took place yesterday at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, German automobile magazine ‘Auto Motor und Sport’, often stylized and abbreviated AMuS, reported that Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz might take a penalty for Sunday’s race as the Maranello team was considering changing the engine on his F1-75 car in Mexico City.
However, after two consecutive retirements in the Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka circuit and in the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas, Carlos Sainz did not have the desire to start from the back of the grid. The penalty would have been + five grid positions and would also need to take another penalty when he mounted the sixth PU.
Ahead of the final free practice session for the 2022 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, Formula 1 Journalist Tobi Gruner of Auto, Motor und Sport confirmed that Scuderia Ferrari eventually decided not to change the Spanish driver’s engine for this round of the season:
“We hear that Carlos Sainz won’t get a new engine today. That would leave Brazil as the most probable opportunity to fit the new engine and get the penalty. It will be only 5 places.” – Tobi Gruner posted on social media ahead of FP3 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.
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