Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both failed to take the start of the Chinese Grand Prix after their cars were struck with issues in the build-up to the race.<\/p>\n
Norris failed to exit the pit lane in time and progress onto the starting grid as the McLaren mechanics worked on his car.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Piastri’s car was later wheeled off the grid and into the garage due to different issues on his MCL40.<\/p>\n
It marks the second successive weekend that McLaren has faced a pre-race setback, as last time out in Australia, home favourite Oscar Piastri crashed out on the way to the grid.<\/p>\n
Norris was due to start the race from sixth on the grid, behind team-mate Piastri in fifth. It is the first time since the 2005 United States GP that both McLaren drivers have failed to start a race.<\/p>\n
McLaren were not alone in having pre-race issues, as problems for Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto and Williams’ Alex Albon saw the pair also not start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Like McLaren, Bortoleto’s failure to start marked a second consecutive grand prix to feature just one Audi.<\/p>\n
Williams, meanwhile, confirmed that it identified a hydraulics issue on Albon’s car during his laps to the grid, and despite the team’s best efforts to fix the issue, it was forced to retire the FW48.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both failed to take the start of the Chinese Grand Prix after their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541759,"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-541758","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\/541758","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=541758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}