場邊啲廣告膠條原來攝左落車底
Norris found himself in trouble when a swath of an advertising banner got caught under his McLaren MCL38, costing him “three seconds per lap”.
While his rivals continued to bang in the laps, he was forced to pit so that McLaren could remove the banner.
Brushing the barriers, the fastest way around the Monte Carlo street circuit, it was noticeable how the drivers were sucking the advertising loose off the barriers.
Norris wasn’t the only driver who that created a problem for with Charles Leclerc, the favourite to take pole position, also off the pace in Q1 with a piece of plastic, potentially from the track-side advertising, stuck to his Ferrari’s front wing.
Both drivers, once the unwanted debris was removed from their cars, progressed to Q3 where Leclerc claimed pole position with Norris P4.
However, his team boss Stella says there could’ve been “catastrophic” consequences for something that should’ve been fixed earlier in the weekend.
“What happened in Q1 is something that should not happen, it’s not up to the standards of racing circuits,” Stella told the media including
PlanetF1.com.
“The fact that the camera picked up a few metres of advertising banners. We caught it under the car and the car lost as much downforce as equivalent to three seconds per lap.