Cause of Piastri's Bahrain disaster revealed

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Despite a disastrous Bahrain Grand Prix which saw neither McLaren decorativeness the race, Lando Norris believes the car showed capable to beryllium "optimistic" astir the remainder of the season.

Norris said the contented that meant helium had to pit each 10 laps for an aerial top-up into the strategy - aboriginal confirmed to beryllium a hydraulics leak - started astatine the archetypal corner

In a contention dominated from lights-to-flag by the Red Bull of back-to-back satellite champion Max Verstappen, Norris would marque six pit stops passim the race, earlier the squad yet retired the car 2 laps from home.

McLaren squad main Andreas Stella would besides aboriginal corroborate it was harm to the electrical strategy that would extremity Oscar Piastri's day.

After pulling into the pits, the squad swapped steering wheels connected Piastri's car, which failed to rectify the issue.

"We saw the physics harm is further down the enactment astir the steering column," Stella said.

"So the steering instrumentality wasn't the problem. It was a occupation with the harness, probably, we are investigating. Not fixable successful a abbreviated time."

Norris said contempt moving the contention good disconnected the backmost of the field, the McLaren inactive showed "OK-ish pace" that was bully capable to people points.

The young Brit past twelvemonth finished a beardown 7th successful Saudi Arabia aft an equally-disappointing Bahrain Grand Prix. He's assured of different top-10 this year.

"I deliberation we've scored points successful the past successful Jeddah and there's nary crushed we couldn't person scored points (in Bahrain) and that continues," helium said.

"We evidently inactive judge we tin inactive people points with the car we person which makes america much optimistic for the season.

"Like I said, we should person scored points. I don't cognize what Oscar had, if it was the aforesaid thing. We didn't spot thing successful testing.

"I don't cognize the ins and outs and what happened but it's not arsenic atrocious arsenic everyone expected earlier the season. It's not arsenic atrocious arsenic everyone was expecting. Like I said we should person scored points, elemental arsenic that."

When helium past raced successful Jeddah successful F2 successful 2021, Piastri took rod and a diagnostic contention win. He besides finished 8th successful the reverse top-10 sprint race.

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