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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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.

Lecl🍷erc’s Ferrari was found to be 1kg underweight, 𒁃while Hamilton’s car had excessive skid plank wear.

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

“The tyres are only part of the explanation,” Vasseur told French newspape🍸r L’Equipe.

“We also lost a litre of water wit๊h Charles's drinking [bottle] leaking. The loss of weiღght is always an addition of many small factors.”

Curiously, Leclerc reported a water leakage inside his cockpit midway through the season-opener in Austra🍰lia.

Leclerc’s complaint 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 world champion’s car high enough in China.

“You have🦂 to distinguish between disqualification because yo𓄧u'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 oꦚf all parameters, everywhere.

“To get to the last gramme of weight, to get to the last tenth of a millimetre of the skid, to get to the last millimetrꦇe of wing deformationꦗ.

“So it's certain that the 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.”

V𓂃asseur’s comments echoed what Leclerc said in the pre-event press conference on Thursday ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix.

“Obviously whenever you d෴o m🎶istakes you learn from them, especially when they’re costing that much,” Leclerc said.

“Everybody is playing 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 expected it to be.

“To l🎃ose more points than we already did ♔[through underperforming in Melbourne] 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“absolute 100% faith” in Ferrari despite their difficult⛄ start to the new season.

The double disqualification in China cost Ferrari 18 points and leaves them only fifth in the constructors’ championship and a whopping 61 points behind McLaren after jus🐻t two rounds.

"I saw someone said something about whether I'm losing faith in the team, which i𝔉s complete rubbish,” Hamilton 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 wiౠnning the championship in our first year.

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