The engine allocation rules have claimed their very first victim since their introduction during 2009 at Brno. Valentino Rossi today told the media that he and the team had decided that he would be using his 7th engine here at Aragon tomorrow, and will take the accompanying penalty by starting from pit lane, 10 seconds after the rest of the field.
The decision was forced on Rossi and his crew because the new aluminium chassis which Rossi debuted here at Aragon has an extra mounting point on the rear of the cylinder head, to accommodate the longer rear spars from the chassis. The 6th engine Rossi used at Misano already had the new mounting points fitted, but the two other GP11.1 engines Rossi had did not have them, making it impossible to use with the new chassis. After practice on Friday, Rossi and his crew had decided that the new aluminium chassis was the right direction to proceed in, and that therefore, they would decide to use the 7th engine and suffer the penalty.
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