“So it’s very important for us that you can reasonably follow another car in a cornering situation and to do that we need to make sure from the aero concept – the amount of dirty air being generated – is not impacting too much the following car.
He was later hit with a three-place grid penalty for the next race in Spain after the stewards ruled he continued for the remainder of that lap with a “significantly damaged car” that “lost several carbon fibre parts on the way back to the pits.
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teams were looking to take a split approach in free practice – Ferrari confirming they were doing so midway through FP3 with Carlos Sainz on soft tyres and Charles Leclerc on mediums.