A fresh theory has emerged for Ferrari’s double disqualification at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

Ferrari had both of 🐻their cars disqualified last time out in China in what proved to be a horror day for the team, representing an early blow to their F1 2025 title aspirations.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton finished a distant fifth and sixth on the road 🌱in Shanghai but both drivers were exc🔯luded from the results due to their cars failing post-race scrutineering checks.

Leclerc’s Ferrari was found to be 1kg underꦗweight, while 💮Hamilton’s car had excessive skid plank wear.

Early theories suggested that Leclerc’s di𝓀squalification could have been influenced by the tyres and his one-stop strategy, but Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has revealed another, more unusual, issue which could have been to blame.

“The tyres are only part of the explanation,🍷” Vasseur told French newspaper L’Equipe.

“We 🌱also lost a litre of water with Charles's drinking [bottle] leaking. The loss of weight is always an addition o🤡f many small factors.”

Curiously,ܫ Leclerc reported a water leakage inside his cockpit midway൲ through the season-opener in Australia.

Leclerc’s complaintℱ led to a now-viral “words of wisdom” radio exchange with 💝his race engineer Bryan Bozzi.

Ferrari paid price for taking risks

Regarding Hamilton’s exclusion, Vasseur admitted Ferrari made a mistake in not running the seven-time♔ worღld champion’s car high enough in China.

“You have to distinguish be🌞tween disqualification because you're taking risks and disqualification because someone is cheating,” Vasseur explained.

“The aim of the game in F1 is to push yourself to the limit of all pꦛarameters, everywhere.

“To get to the last gramme of weight, to get to the last tenth of a millimetre of the skid, to get to thꦅe last milli♛metre of wing deformation.

“So it's certain that t﷽he more pressure you're under, ෴the more intense the fight, the closer you need to get to these limits and the more risks you take.”

Vasseur’s comments echoed what Lecle𒈔rc said in the pre-event press conference on Thursday ahead of the J🅠apanese Grand Prix.

“Obviously whenever you do mistakes you learn from𝐆 them, especially when they’re costing that much,” Lecl🌸erc said.

“Everybody is playi൩ng with the limit and trying to be as close as possible to it, but to have both cars underneath [i.e. beyond] it was a big pain, and at the end of the day we didn’t need that. It’s been a very difficult first part of the season, the first two races were very difficult, the pace wasn’t where we exp꧋ected it to be.

“To lose more points than we a♏lready did [through underperforming in Melbourne]ꦰ hurts the team a lot.”

Lewis Hamilton has ‘absolute faith’ in Ferrari

Hamilton, who won the sprint race in Shanghai, has insisted he has 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“absolute 100% faith” in Ferrari despite their difficu🤪lt start to the new s🐭eason.

The double disqualification in China cost Ferrari 18 points and leaves them only fifth in the constructors’ championship and a whoﷺpping 61 points behind McLaren after just two rounds.

"I saw some🐈one said something about whether I'm losing faith in the team, which is complete rubbish,” Hamilton𝓰 said. "I have absolute 100% faith in this team.

"There was obviously a huge amount of hype at the beginning of the year. I don't know if everyone was expecting us to be winning from race one and winning the championship in our ❀first year.

"That wasn🌳't my expectation. I know that I'm coming into a new culture, a new team and it's going to take time."