The McLaren driver encountered issues from Lap ꦗ1 of the 2023 season-opener, eventually pitting five times before his car was finally retired on its 🏅sixth stop.

His teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri, on his F1 debut, became the first drive�🔴�r of the new season to retire with separate problems.

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“I think the best thing is the mechanics did a lot of pit stop practices,” Norris said. “That’s𓆉 the💦 biggest positive.

“I think the pace was ok-🍷ish and we coulไd have scored a point today at least so it’s a shame we had the problems we did.

“Good start, good launch, made up a few positions and then we had problems from Turn 1 basically – p🎐neumatic problems and 🥀various other issues.

“That just brought out us of the race more and more, we had to pit every ten lap🐻🀅s and that was it.”

Team principal Andrea Stella expꦏlained: "There was a pneumatic pressure leak on Lando's car. We discovered this leak relatively soon in the race.

"Then we knew that it wa༺s possible only to do 10, 11 laps each time before having to refiಌll.

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"We d𒈔ecided to stay in the race, we decided to try and stay at least w𝔉ithin one lap from the leader within the last 10 laps.

"💝Then if there's a safety car, try and see if there was an opportunity. We did six stops."

Piastri was forced to retire when an attempt to fit a new steering wheel,꧅ to solve an elec♌trical problem, failed.

Stella said: "The electroni🐼c damage was further d൩own the line around the steering column. So, the steering wheel wasn't the problem. It was a problem with the harness probably. We are investigating. Not fixable in a short time."

McLaren have experienced a horrible start to 2023 - Norris🌺 was spotted punching a wall in frustration during preseason testing in Bahrain.

CEO Zak Br𒈔own had already admitted that the car’s development was behind s👍chedule.