McLaren and engine accomplice Honda have endured another blow in an agitated pre-season program. Honda has chosen to change the engine in Stoffel Vandoorne’s car on the primary day of the last test in Spain in the wake of finding an electrical issue.
It is the most recent in a progression of issues with Honda’s recently overhauled engine after Honda utilized no less than five in a week ago’s first pre-season test. Vandoorne finished the morning eighth speediest, 2.972 seconds off the pace. A Honda representative stated: “in light of a legitimate concern for boosting lap time, we sped to supplant the power-unit and explore the issue promote once it is out of the car. A spokesman from Honda said,
“In the interests of maximising lap time, we sped to replace the power-unit and investigate the issue further once it is out of the car.
“The PU we are using is the same specification as the one run at the test last week.”
Honda has said it has a redesigned engine that it is wanting to use for the primary race of the season in Australia on 24-26 March. That most recent particular is relied upon to keep running eventually this week at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona. The fastest lap of the morning was set by Williams driver Felipe Massa on the super-delicate tires, 0.174secs faster than Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull, utilizing the ultra-delicate tire.
The delicate tire is computed by Pirelli to be 0.8secs a lap slower than the super-delicate.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton was third speediest, 0.556secs behind Ricciardo and furthermore on the delicate tire.
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was fourth fastest, 0.671secs behind Hamilton yet utilizing the medium tire which is said to be 1.3-1.4secs slower than the delicate.
It is difficult to specifically analyze the lap times notwithstanding considering the tire off-sets in light of the fact that the teams don’t uncover the fuel stacks in the cars or the determination in which they are running, both of which can make critical contrasts to lap time.
