{"id":805659,"date":"2026-07-16T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805659\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:58:09","slug":"f1-champion-lando-norris-hit-with-10-place-grid-penalty-for-belgian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805659\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 champion Lando Norris hit with 10-place grid penalty for Belgian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium \u2014 Lando Norris&#8217; faltering\u00a0Formula 1\u00a0title defence hit another setback Thursday as McLaren confirmed he will get a 10-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Norris is paying the price for poor reliability earlier in the season of the electronics which manage his car&#8217;s hybrid power systems.<\/p>\n<p>Fitting an upgraded power electronics unit supplied by Mercedes with what McLaren called \u201ca series of reliability fixes\u201d took\u00a0Norris\u00a0over his allowance of three for the season and triggered the penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Norris lost two of the units to failures, including a breakdown which left him\u00a0unable to start\u00a0the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren said it picked Belgium to use the new unit because it&#8217;s relatively easy to overtake at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, meaning Norris has a better chance of making up at least some of the places he&#8217;ll lose.<\/p>\n<p>Norris is fifth in the standings, 82 points off leader Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium \u2014 Lando Norris&#8217; faltering\u00a0Formula 1\u00a0title defence hit another setback Thursday as McLaren confirmed he will get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-805659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}