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Grid penalties coming Ricciardo's way in Brazil

Daniel Ricciardo isn't expecting to get a free pass after his engine failure in Mexico two weeks, with the Red Bull driver bracing for a grid penalty on Sunday. Ricciardo's power unit in Mexico suffered an MGU-H failure, and while it was initially hoped the element could be replaced with a similar component in Red Bull's pool of used parts, the installation of a new and eighth element is probable. The replacement would trigger a 10-place drop for the Honey Badger. Horner against changing F1's weekend format "[A penalty is] likely at this stage," Ricciardo said on Thursday at Interlagos. "We could maybe avoid it but it's probably going to put us at a risk again of maybe not...
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