Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat will definitely receive grid penalties for another Renault engine change ahead of this weekend's Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix. Team principal Christian Horner suggested after the last race in Belgium that it was "most likely" both RB11s would require a sixth engine ahead of F1's trip to the power circuit that is Monza. Continue after the cut
Horner has now confirmed Ricciardo and Kvyat will be handed 10-place penalties, as it will be the first time a sixth element of the power unit will have been used this season.
"We'll be taking a penalty this weekend with both cars, which will be power unit six," confirmed Horner. We're out of mileage on the units we've got, and we need to do what we can to get to the end of the year. We've decided to take it tactically at Monza because it's a track where you are flat out for 75 per cent of it, so of course it's not going to be our strongest circuit of the year, " Horner said to AUTOSPORT.
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