In the round-up: McLaren are hopeful of avoiding any penalties for exceeding their power unit component allocations despite the problem Lando Norris encountered during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend.
In brief
Norris’ Montreal power unit can be salvaged
McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl says the team is not concerned about power unit reliability despite the problems they encountered in Canada. Norris had to abandon his qualifying effort during Q2 and both McLaren drivers were “managing parameters” during the final phase of Sunday’s race.
“What happened on Lando’s PU was a sensor that was causing a loss of power and a misfire, that we had in Q2,” Seidl explained. “We took the decision to switch then the power unit back to the other one, which is in the pool, in the morning. So we’re still on two PUs.
“We expect that the power unit can be repaired and therefore, for the moment, there is no sign that they couldn’t finish the season this year with three power units.”
Ocon “very happy” with potential French Grand Prix in Nice
Esteban Ocon welcomed reports Nice could take over as the venue for the French Grand Prix. F1 is not expected to return to Paul Ricard after next month’s race.
“I was very happy to read this,” said the Alpine driver. “I think obviously it’s a bit sad to lose Ricard, it’s a bit of our home. But you know, if we can find a solution to to keep a French Grand Prix and around Nice, back-to-back Monaco and Nice [is] not too bad.”
McLaren partners with Goldman Sachs for environmental push
McLaren has announced a new, multi-year sponsorship agreement with Goldman Sachs, which specifically lays out that the two will work together to meet environmental goals.
As part of the agreement, Goldman Sachs will help McLaren move forward on its plan to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reduce its carbon production to net-zero by 2040.
Mercedes partners with Sutton Trust for STEM education
The Mercedes F1 team has partnered with social mobility and educational charity The Sutton Trust to make its expertise available to high performing students as part of its Accelerate 25 programme.
The Sutton Trust helps to encourage students who come from underprivileged backgrounds but have strong school results. Its student will visit Mercedes’ Brackley factory and members of the team will participate in panel debates, university sessions and engineering days, take part in residential summer school programmes, run practical…
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