McLaren is down to its last permitted Mercedes battery on Lando Norris’s 2026 Formula 1 car, meaning he will incur a penalty if he suffers any further failures before repairs can be made.McLaren was forced into a battery change for final practice ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, after discovering a fault on Norris’s car.This comes after Norris was forced out of the Chinese GP before the start with a battery problem. A similar problem meant team-mate Oscar Piastri also missed that race.”The problem we noticed before the start of FP3 was on the same power unit component, the Hertz module, which includes the battery,” said team principal Andrea Stella, when asked by Th …
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Author: Ben Anderson
