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Thursday Tech:
No mention of Mercedes using all of their remaining tokens on Lewis and Nico’s 3rd power unit?
Nothing in the docs as of yet. Likely we’ll see something in the scrutineering for tomorrow. Similarly we’ll see the updated PU count
I’m confused as to how Jenson has used more PU components overall yet Alonso seems to be getting the bigger penalties at recent races. Also, wasn’t the point of taking two penalties at the last race so they had a stock of engines to work through? Taking another penalty either suggests they have had another failure or aren’t planning any upgrades in the next few races.
I also can’t understand why McLaren have used so many CEs? Surely these are easily transferrable between engines and are reprogrammable so if anything has changed they can just update them?