O'Ward "super happy" after driving McLaren in front of his home crowd

Having bought behind the wheel of Lando Norris’ MCL38 in yesterday’s opening follow session, McLaren Racing’s IndyCar driver Patricio O’Ward insists that he was blissful to have the ability to tick all of the bins of the run plan that the Woking-based outfit had decided forward of the weekend.

McLaren’s common driver Lando Norris sat out the opening follow as Pato O’Ward bought behind his automobile in Free Apply 1. The Briton got here again in for FP2 with a brand new flooring as well, and wound up fifth total.

McLaren Racing’s IndyCar driver O’Ward set a time of 1m19.295s within the opening sixty-minute follow to complete in P13. The Mexican driver labelled his day as “fabulous”, praising the passionate crowd.

“A superb day in the present day actually, I very a lot loved my FP1 outing in Mexico. The gang was unbelievable, and I’m tremendous blissful that I used to be capable of extract every thing from the programme that the group had deliberate.

“It was nice to have the ability to help Lando, Oscar and the group in studying and set-up, and contribute in a optimistic approach to the weekend. I can’t wait to see what the group can do tomorrow and within the race on Sunday.”

Commenting on O’Wards’ follow outing in FP1, McLaren group boss added: “I’d additionally prefer to congratulate Pato and say properly completed. He drove very, very properly in FP1.

“He contributed so much to our testing programme, and we have been very inspired with what we noticed when it comes to consistency and tempo, despite the fact that we didn’t essentially search most efficiency because of the check gadgets we would have liked to undergo. We now shift our focus to our preparation for Qualifying and the race.”

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