FIA clear Ferrari and ensure SF71H is legal

Ferrari has been given the green light with their 2018 car after rivals had suggested they had been running their ERS system illegally. Some speculated that the Italian team had been exceeding the 120KW limit with their MGU-K deployment.

Race director Charlie Whiting confirmed over the Monaco Grand Prix weekend that Ferrari had met the goals set by the FIA and that he was fully satisfied the Scuderia were operating within the rules after running new software requested by the governing body.

“We had some concerns in Baku that were difficult to explain and we worked through it with them,” Whiting told Reuters.

“(The rulebook) says that it is the duty of the competitor to satisfy the FIA that their car complies at all times and they were having difficulty satisfying us.

“Here, we are now satisfied.

“Some things in the data we could not quite explain… we went through it with Ferrari and they gave explanations which were not particularly convincing.

“We wanted to really get to the bottom of it and in Spain (two weekends ago), they took some measures to make sure we understood it more and that we were seeing things that we were happy with.”