{"id":447697,"date":"2026-01-30T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447697\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:30:08","slug":"f1-live-norris-turns-up-the-pace-as-mcl40-leads-final-day-of-barcelona-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447697\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 LIVE | Norris turns up the pace as MCL40 leads final day of Barcelona testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brit was the first out of anyone to break through the one-minute-17-second barrier with a stunning time of 1.16.928, with no one else able to keep up with an impressive German team.<\/p>\n<p>Russell and Antonelli completed 78 laps and 90 laps, respectively, while Charles Leclerc rounded out the top three with a 1.18.223 and 83 laps to his name. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/oscar-piastri\" title=\"Oscar Piastri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> and Arvid Lindblad rounded out the top five, while Lewis Hamilton took P6.For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/oscar-piastri\" title=\"Oscar Piastri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mclaren\" title=\"McLaren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren<\/a>, the only running they could do took place in the morning session, as an issue derailed their afternoon testing session.<\/p>\n<p>A fuel system problem was the culprit for the British team, meaning their day was done and saw them miss out on valuable miles and data collection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discovered a fuel system problem, and the car&#8217;s very complex, so we&#8217;ve decided to bring it back into the garage, strip it down fully and understand where the problem is coming from,&#8221; explained Mark Temple, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mclaren\" title=\"McLaren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren<\/a>&#8216;s Technical Director, Performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brit was the first out of anyone to break through the one-minute-17-second barrier with a stunning time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,79010,817,35119,813,816,3875,4125,913,189983,2333,85],"class_list":["post-447697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-circuit-de-barcelona-catalunya","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-george-russell","tag-live","tag-mclaren","tag-mercedes-amg-f1-team","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}