{"id":18001,"date":"2013-03-18T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18001"},"modified":"2013-03-18T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T11:00:31","slug":"horner-criticises-mclaren-for-ecu-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-criticises-mclaren-for-ecu-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner criticises McLaren for ECU troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a nightmare weekend for McLaren, Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner added the final insult.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Christian-Horner-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Christian-Horner-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Briton Horner, boss of McLaren&#8217;s arch-rival, blamed the Woking based team for Mark Webber&#8217;s Melbourne woes.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Webber had a terrible start and then a KERS issue in his home race, and Horner said afterwards: &#8220;You need to ask McLaren why the ECU didn&#8217;t work because he was blind and had no telemetry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is something they need to get on top of because it caused a lot of issues during testing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Horner is referring to the standard electronic control unit mandatorily supplied by McLaren subsidiary MES to every team in F1.<\/p>\n<p>As for McLaren&#8217;s disastrous new 2013 car, there is talk of reverting to last year&#8217;s winning machine, but it is believed that the British team is more likely to try to improve the MP4-28.<\/p>\n<p>Triple world champion and Mercedes team figure Niki Lauda tipped McLaren to bounce back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McLaren is famous for responding quickly to problems.\u00a0 It is impossible to write them off,&#8221; he said on German television RTL.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a nightmare weekend for McLaren, Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner added the final insult. Briton Horner, boss of McLaren&#8217;s arch-rival, blamed the Woking based team for Mark Webber&#8217;s Melbourne woes. Australian Webber had a terrible start and then a KERS issue in his home race, and Horner said afterwards: &#8220;You need to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[128,4378,5262,5340,702,5284,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18002,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001\/revisions\/18002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}