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A series of penalties have shaken up the official starting grid before Sunday’s Grand Prix. Bottas benefitted from the rearrangement as he shot up to P7, while Zhou was on the wrong end of a penalty for taking on new power unit components and he lines up on the back row alongside Nicholas Latifi.

As for Red Bull, Max Verstappen starts on the front row alongside Carlos Sainz, despite posting the third-fastest time on Saturday. Perez, who accepted a penalty for the same reason as Zhou, starts at P9.

With Verstappen’s second world title all wrapped up, plenty of attention is on Red Bull’s cost cap saga with Horner and Zak Brown going head to head in a tense press conference in Austin after the McLaren boss wrote a letter about ‘cheating’ to the FIA ​​this month.