That's what happened predicted and speculated, repeatedly denied and turned to a veil of secrecy, is now in Istanbul became a fact, however.
Lewis Hamilton will get into his race car fourth engine and will have to move back down the starting lineup after qualifying. Here in Istanbul the seven-time world champion drove to the track in his first free practice with a new one internal combustion engine thus confirming the penalty for Sunday’s Turkish GP race.
Unlike this was the case Max Verstappen on the race GP of Russia in Sochi, which got completely new drive unit and started the race from scratch, it is Hamilton received here in Turkey only the fourth internal combustion engine. And this first additional component of it only costs him ten places, which is why Hamilton will definitely not start from the back row.