News Details

McLaren’s Sainz takes on new engine for Brazilian GP

McLaren has fitted Carlos Sainz’s Formula 1 car with a whole new power unit ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix. An ignition wiring failure during qualifying caused a sudden loss of power on Sainz’s MCL34 and prevented him from setting a time in Q1. With Sainz set to start Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix from the back of the Interlagos grid anyway, McLaren has decided to carry out a full engine change. The Woking squad has fitted a new internal combustion engine (ICE), turbocharger (TC), motor generator unit-heat (MGU-H), motor generator unit-kinetic (MGU-K), energy store (ES) and control electronics (CE) for the race in Sao Paulo. Sainz will take no extra penalty assuming McLaren does...
Full Story »
4y ago from Crash.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

McLaren take free penalty: New engine parts for Carlos...

Carlos Sainz will compete in the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix with a new...
4y ago from GPBlog.com

Another power unit technical directive issued

Brazilian Grand Prix – The FIA has issued another power unit...
4y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Sainz doesn't know what caused power loss as he starts...

McLaren star Carlos Sainz Jr. will start the Brazilian Grand Prix from...
4y ago from GPBlog.com

Charles Leclerc to take new power unit, Brazil GP grid...

Charles Leclerc will take a grid penalty at this weekend’s Formula...
4y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Vinales: Aprilia COTA MotoGP win has ‘different...

Maverick Vinales believes that his maiden win with Aprilia in MotoGP at...

Ducati: Bastianini's COTA MotoGP podium an...

Ducati General Manager Gigi Dall’Igna labelled Enea Bastianini's podium...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Neuville and Evans tied to a tenth!

Thierry Neuville and Elfyn Evans fought a mighty duel across eight stages...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Mikel Arteta says it is 'too soon' for £38m defender...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has provided an injury update on summer...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Aston Villa line up summer move for £60m Chelsea flop

Aston Villa are targeting a new left-back this summer and Chelsea's Marc...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.