{"id":541615,"date":"2026-03-15T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541615\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:41:07","slug":"lando-norris-suffers-critical-mclaren-blow-ahead-of-chinese-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541615\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris suffers critical McLaren blow ahead of Chinese GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lando Norris is facing a pit-lane start at the Chinese Grand Prix following a late issue on his McLaren F1 car.<\/p>\n<p>Norris failed to make it out of the pit-lane before the pit-exit closed to make his way around to the dummy grid, with this meaning that he must start from the pit-lane, if he can even start the grand prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McLaren had reported that an issue with the electrics had triggered the removal of the floor of the car and a number of parts being checked.<\/p>\n<p>The team had believed that the issue had been fixed, but the world champion failed to make it from the garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If he does start the race, Norris will do so from the pit-lane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/mclaren-disaster-as-lando-norris-and-oscar-piastri-fail-to-start-chinese-gp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Norris failed to start the race due to his issue, with McLaren partner Oscar Piastri also not starting.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris is facing a pit-lane start at the Chinese Grand Prix following a late issue on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,830,828,831,829,826,813,43,823,825,824,44,822,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-541615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541615","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=541615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}