Grosjean and Vettel take gearbox penalties

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Romain Grosjean and Sebastian Vettel will both take five-place grid penalties as a result of new gearboxes ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Grosjean crashed in Q2 at Turn 10, with Haas discovering his gearbox was damaged in the incident. Having originally qualified 15th - which became 14th as a result of an eight-place grid penalty for Sergio Perez - Grosjean will now drop to 19th on the grid for today's race.

Vettel had a rear anti-roll bar problem during Q1 and failed to get out of the first part of qualifying, finishing with the slowest time in the session. With the German already starting from last on the grid, Ferrari has taken the opportunity to make a number of his chances to his car.

Following qualifying, Ferrari has given Vettel a new internal combustion engine (ICE), turborcharger and MGU-H. All three components are the sixth of each one and so the ICE carries a ten-place grid penalty, with the subsequent two components carrying additional five-place grid penalties. The new gearbox also carries a five-place grid penalty - bringing the total grid drop to 25 places - but as Vettel was already last on the grid he will stay in 22nd place.

Following his grid penalty on Saturday, Perez moves up a place to 17th as a result of Grosjean's drop.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.