By GMM
Toro Rosso racer Sebastian Vettel will approach next week's Monaco grand prix with both a new car and a penalty.
The new STR3 requires a different gearbox installation to its predecessor, the 2007-spec STR2B that has been raced by the German, and his French teammate Sebastien Bourdais, at the first five races of the season.
This year's rules stipulate a mandatory four-race life per gearbox, meaning that Vettel - to use a different gearbox at Monaco to the one that he drove to 17th place in Turkey - will receive a five-position demotion on the grid.
The same penalty will not apply to Bourdais, because the 29-year-old did not finish at Istanbul last Sunday.
"Monte Carlo is the last place you want a punishment like that," the Faenza based team's team co-owner Gerhard Berger lamented to the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport.
Toro Rosso racer Sebastian Vettel will approach next week's Monaco grand prix with both a new car and a penalty.
The new STR3 requires a different gearbox installation to its predecessor, the 2007-spec STR2B that has been raced by the German, and his French teammate Sebastien Bourdais, at the first five races of the season.
This year's rules stipulate a mandatory four-race life per gearbox, meaning that Vettel - to use a different gearbox at Monaco to the one that he drove to 17th place in Turkey - will receive a five-position demotion on the grid.
The same penalty will not apply to Bourdais, because the 29-year-old did not finish at Istanbul last Sunday.
"Monte Carlo is the last place you want a punishment like that," the Faenza based team's team co-owner Gerhard Berger lamented to the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport.