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McLaren software causing problems for F1 teams
By Editor on Thursday, February 21, 2013 Pirelli's heavily degrading tyres were not the only ‘control' components causing problems for F1 teams in Barcelona this week.
The standard electronics used by every team, and supplied by McLaren subsidiary MES according to a FIA tender contract that was recently extended, was also toying with the patience of engineers up and down pitlane as the ‘middle' pre-season test in sunny Spain got into gear.
Red Bull – not McLaren's closest friends in the paddock – were being the most vocal at the Circuit de Catalunya, saying the new software supplied by the McLaren company was causing frustration.
'But I don't think we were alone in...
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