Jun.27 (GMM) McLaren has discovered a short lived answer to get the crew via this weekend’s Austrian GP.
Earlier, Dr Helmut Marko revealed that the Woking primarily based crew reached out to Crimson Bull hoping the power drink firm had a spare motorhome that McLaren may use on the Crimson Bull Ring this weekend.
“They requested us,” the Crimson Bull F1 guide confirmed to Kleine Zeitung.
McLaren’s grand paddock ‘motorhome’ is out of motion not less than for the rest of the present triple-header sequence of grands prix following {an electrical} fireplace in Barcelona.
“Sadly we couldn’t assist them out as a result of we’re utilizing the Vitality Station and hospitality on the MotoGP on the similar time,” stated Marko.
“I don’t know what they’re doing now.”
Reporting from the Austrian GP venue early on Thursday, Kleine Zeitung correspondent Matthias Janisch reviews that McLaren has discovered an answer for now.
“A smaller, black motorhome would be the house of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri this weekend,” he stated.
In the meantime, Marko stated he totally helps the FIA and the Crimson Bull Ring’s joint answer to the farcical ‘monitor limits’ situation that marred final 12 months’s working of the occasion.
Skinny, non permanent gravel strips have been added to the surface of the kerbs on the offending turns 9 and 10, with Marko commenting: “It ought to work and is definitely acceptable by way of cost-benefit evaluation.”
Nonetheless, he’s much less keen about the concept the strips might be eliminated for different motorsport classes, particularly MotoGP.
“If you happen to have a look at the monitor in Barcelona, there may be gravel so far as the attention can see and MotoGP races there too,” he stated. “So it appears to be working.
“Maybe the monitor ought to do a greater job of asserting itself towards such calls for.”
