{"id":4220,"date":"2010-04-07T06:56:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:43:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:43:37","slug":"ferrari-downplays-claims-of-engine-reliability-dramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-downplays-claims-of-engine-reliability-dramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari downplays claims of engine reliability dramas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ferrari has downplayed suggestions that last weekend&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix highlighted a major engine reliability problem for the Italian marque.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After both his and Felipe Massa&#8217;s engines had to be replaced before the race in Bahrain, Fernando Alonso then retired at Sepang last weekend with a smoky blown V8.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s Ferrari-powered Saubers also failed in the Malaysian heat, even though their problems were not related to Alonso&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari has now confirmed that the Sauber-spec engines failed due to &#8220;a malfunction of the electronic engine management&#8221;.\u00a0 All electronic control units fitted to F1 cars are supplied by McLaren Electronic Systems (MES).<\/p>\n<p>The Maranello based team also said Alonso&#8217;s Sepang failure was sudden and isolated, and therefore not linked to the problems in Bahrain that were caused &#8220;by a momentary overheating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari said Alonso&#8217;s separate gearbox problem in Malaysia, where the Spaniard drove almost the entire race without a clutch, &#8220;could have caused some consequences for the engine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A more precise analysis can only be made when the engine is back at the works (factory) on Wednesday afternoon,&#8221; added the team.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has downplayed suggestions that last weekend&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix highlighted a major engine reliability problem for the Italian marque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,502],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}