Jun.27 (GMM) McLaren has discovered a brief resolution to get the crew by way of this weekend’s Austrian GP.
Earlier, Dr Helmut Marko revealed that the Woking primarily based crew reached out to Pink Bull hoping the power drink firm had a spare motorhome that McLaren may use on the Pink Bull Ring this weekend.
“They requested us,” the Pink Bull F1 guide confirmed to Kleine Zeitung.
McLaren’s grand paddock ‘motorhome’ is out of motion at the least for the rest of the present triple-header sequence of grands prix following {an electrical} hearth in Barcelona.
“Sadly we couldn’t assist them out as a result of we’re utilizing the Power Station and hospitality on the MotoGP on the identical time,” stated Marko.
“I don’t know what they’re doing now.”
Reporting from the Austrian GP venue early on Thursday, Kleine Zeitung correspondent Matthias Janisch studies that McLaren has discovered an answer for now.
“A smaller, black motorhome would be the house of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri this weekend,” he stated.
In the meantime, Marko stated he absolutely helps the FIA and the Pink Bull Ring’s joint resolution to the farcical ‘monitor limits’ concern that marred final 12 months’s operating of the occasion.
Skinny, non permanent gravel strips have been added to the skin of the kerbs on the offending turns 9 and 10, with Marko commenting: “It ought to work and is definitely applicable when it comes to cost-benefit evaluation.”
Nonetheless, he’s much less passionate about the concept the strips shall be eliminated for different motorsport classes, particularly MotoGP.
“In case you take a look at the monitor in Barcelona, there’s gravel so far as the attention can see and MotoGP races there too,” he stated. “So it appears to be working.
“Maybe the monitor ought to do a greater job of asserting itself towards such calls for.”
