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Norris starts from back as McLaren gives him new engine
Lando Norris will start the Sakhir Grand Prix from near the back of the grid after McLaren opted to take a new power unit for strategic reasons.
McLaren stated on Saturday night that it was looking at the potential to change the engine in Norris’ car after he qualified a disappointing 15th on the grid after a messy Q2. While he had already used his full allocation of components, by taking a new internal combustion engine (ICE) and turbocharger, Norris only drops four positions on the grid.
With a fresh engine, McLaren should be able to get more performance out of the car for the final two races, particularly today’s event in Sakhir where there are just four braking zones and multiple long straights on the under one-minute lap.
McLaren's decision to take the penalty promotes Kevin Magnussen to 15th place ahead of Nicholas Latifi, Jack Aitken, Kimi Raikkonen and Pietro Fittipaldi. Fittipaldi himself has a back of the grid start due to Haas also needing to take new power unit components this weekend after Romain Grosjean’s huge crash a week ago.
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While studying Sports Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Chris managed to talk his way into working at the British Grand Prix in 2008 and was retained for three years before joining ESPN F1 as Assistant Editor. After three further years at ESPN, a spell as F1 Editor at Crash Media Group was followed by the major task of launching F1i.com’s English-language website and running it as Editor. Present at every race since the start of 2014, he has continued building his freelance portfolio, working with international titles. As well as writing for RACER, his broadcast work includes television appearances on F1 TV and as a presenter and reporter on North America's live radio coverage on SiriusXM.
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