“exceeding our permitted number of allocated power electronics units”<\/a>, it said in a statement.<\/p>\nSpeaking on Thursday’s media day in Spa, Norris said: \u201c[This weekend] certainly won\u2019t be made easier by the grid penalty.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s just because I\u2019ve been unlucky in the first part of the season losing a lot of different bits, whether it was the engine or the power unit or the controls \u2013 whatever it\u2019s been.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m on the back foot from a spare parts point of view but that\u2019s out of my hands, and out of our hands in some ways. So that\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
“[I’ve] just got to take it on the chin and deal with some of the penalties that I have coming up, but this is certainly a better track to take the penalties than the next two. It\u2019s part of it, but we can still look forward to try and have a good weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
McLaren has generally failed to match the performance of Mercedes and Ferrari this season, with Red Bull also moving into contention and demoting the reigning champions as the fourth-quickest car.<\/p>\n
Norris acknowledged that upgrades, which include a new rear wing in Belgium, as well as further planned packages in Hungary and Holland, would be crucial.<\/p>\n
“Every little thing helps. When you see an upgrade on the notes, you think it\u2019s going to turn things around,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The rear wing that we have this weekend, it\u2019s a very, very small step \u2013 probably not even a tenth of a second. Not even half a tenth maybe.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re talking small numbers and hopefully the upgrades we can have in Budapest and into Zandvoort can help us maybe accelerate that progression.<\/p>\n
“But we\u2019re doing what we can \u2013 you can\u2019t rush these things, you can\u2019t just make them appear. So we\u2019re paying the price, we\u2019re working hard, the team are working hard and we just keep our heads down and maximise what we have now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has explained why McLaren has decided to take a 10-place grid drop for the reigning World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-806161","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\/806161","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=806161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}