McLaren’s preparation for the Spanish Grand Prix was disrupted by a fireplace in its hospitality unit on Saturday forward of FP3 that resulted in a single crew member being taken to hospital.
A suspected electrical hearth broke out between flooring within the crew’s hospitality unit round half an hour earlier than the ultimate apply session, resulting in the evacuation of everybody inside. A lot of close by personnel — together with Pirelli motorsport boss Mario Isola, who’s a part-time ambulance driver in Milan — rushed into the unit with hearth extinguishers earlier than the hearth companies arrived.
The realm was cleared because the supply was investigated and the hearth finally extinguished, with one crew member taken to hospital as a precaution.
Though the scenario was nonetheless being handled as FP3 started, the operational aspect of the race crew was largely unaffected and will take part in closing apply, with the race fits of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri retrieved rapidly after they had been evacuated together with the remainder of the crew previous to preparing for the session.
“This morning a fireplace was detected in our trackside crew hub,” a McLaren assertion learn. “The crew hub was evacuated of all workers and company, and circuit emergency companies attended the scene inside minutes. The circuit emergency companies and native hearth division have since extinguished the hearth.
“One McLaren crew member has been taken to hospital as a precaution, and all McLaren personnel and company are accounted for.
“We wish to thank all of the marshals and emergency companies for his or her fast {and professional} response. We’d additionally wish to thank Formulation 1, the FIA and our opponents who’ve supplied to assist our crew and company this weekend.”
