Ferrari has issued a statement following the disqualifications of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton from the Chinese Grand Prix.
After finishing fifth and sixth in Shanghai, the pair were expunged from the results for separate reasons.
Leclerc was found to be underweight, with Hamilton's car having too much wear on its skid-block, both clear breaches of the technical regulations.
It is the first-ever double DSQ for Ferrari from a grand prix, with it being the third of Hamilton's career following the 2009 Australian and 2023 United States GPs, with Leclerc also removed from the latter for skid-block wear, as was Hamilton.
Read the full statement from Ferrari below.
Ferrari statement in full
"Following the FIA post-race scrutineering both our cars were found not to conform to the regulations for different reasons," began the statement, supplied to media including RacingNews365.
"Car 16 (Leclerc) was found to be underweight by 1 kg and car 44 (Hamilton)'s rearward skid wear was found to be 0.5mm below the limit.
"Charles was on a one-stop strategy today and this meant his tyre wear was very high, causing the car to be underweight.
"With regard to Lewis’ skid wear, we misjudged the consumption by a small margin.
"There was no intention to gain any advantage.
"We will learn from what happened today and make sure we don’t make the same mistakes again.
"Clearly it’s not the way we wanted to end our Chinese GP weekend, neither for ourselves, nor for our fans whose support for us is unwavering."
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