The McLaren Formula 1 team broke curfew on Friday night in Monaco to “comprehensively” address the issue that caused Lando Norris’s car to grind to a halt in practice.<\/p>\n
Norris’s car switched off in practice two, losing F1’s reigning world champion crucial track time on a circuit where confidence is key.<\/p>\n
McLaren broke the 10pm curfew – as every team is allowed to do four times a season – to work on Norris’s car.<\/p>\n
“Following Lando’s car stopping on track in FP2 yesterday, the team carried out extensive work ahead of FP3 this morning,” McLaren said on Saturday morning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“To investigate and address the issue comprehensively, the team elected to break curfew last night and replace the wiring harness, and also changed the ESME pack within the permitted allocation.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The energy store main enclosure (ESME) external structure encloses multiple safety elements, sensors and wiring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All changes were made within Norris’s allocation, so he shouldn’t receive a penalty.<\/p>\n
Cadillac also broke the curfew on Friday night, the first time it’s done so in F1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The McLaren Formula 1 team broke curfew on Friday night in Monaco to “comprehensively” address the issue that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-718846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718846","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=718846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}