During the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, Lando Norris's McLaren suffered a significant performance loss due to advertising banners getting trapped under his car. T
The Silverstone outfit hit an unexpected hurdle at the iconic Monaco Grand Prix, not due to mechanical failures but instead circuit management. McLaren's experienced driver encountered a severe setback during Q1 when his car became entangled with loose advertising banners on the track.
"What happened in Q1 is something that should not happen. It's not up to the standards of racing circuits. The fact that the car picks up what was a few metres of advertising banners. We caught it under the car and the car lost as much downforce as equivalent to 3 seconds per lap," Stella explained. The sentiment was clear—Formula 1 circuits are expected to offer a level racing environment, and the presence of obstacles like loose banners is unacceptable.
"It shouldn't happen that the car is compromised by these kind of problems that have been there right from FP1. It's not suddenly in qualifying, we have the banners coming off. It's been there every single session, and we need to fix it because I think today it affected Lando in a pretty catastrophic way from a performance point of view," he added.
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