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, r๊epresenting 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 six🃏th on the road in Shanghai but both drivers were excluded from the results due to their cars failing post-race scওrutineering checks.

Leclerc’s Ferrari was fou⭕nd to be 1kg underweight, while Hamilton’s car had excessive skid plank wear.

Early theories suggested that Lecl🧜erc’s disqualification could have been influenced by the tyres and his one-stop strategy, but Ferrari team principal Fred Vasse🐷ur has revealed another, more unusual, issue which could have been to blame.

“The tyres are only part of the explanation,” Vasseur told French news🦩paper L’Equipe.

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

Curiously, Leclerc reported a water l🌟eakage inside his cockpit midway through the season-opener in Australia.

L📖eclerc’s complaint led t▨o 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 you're taking risks and disqualificatioꦡn because someone is cheating,” Vasseur explained.

“The aim 🦂of the game in F1 is to push yourself to the limit of all parameters, everywhere.

“To get to the last gramme of weight, to get to the last tenth of a millimetre of the skid💮, to g꧂et to the last millimetre of wing deformation.

“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 m💛﷽ore risks you take.”

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

“Obviously whenever you do mistakes you learn from theꦅm, 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 underneat🥀h [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 lose more points than we already d🧔id [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 d♈espite 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 just two rounds.

"I saw someone said something about whether I'm losing faith in the team, which is complete r💜ubbish,” Hamilton said. "I have absolute 100% faithꦇ 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 winning the championship in our first year.

"That wasn't my expectation. I know that I'm coming into a new culture, a new team and it's goin꧅g to take time."