{"id":18019,"date":"2013-03-19T07:26:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T11:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2013-03-19T07:26:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T11:26:14","slug":"ecu-glitches-could-be-red-bulls-fault-whitmarsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecu-glitches-could-be-red-bulls-fault-whitmarsh\/","title":{"rendered":"ECU glitches could be Red Bull’s fault – Whitmarsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

McLaren has hit back at arch-rival Red Bull’s claims that the British team was responsible for Mark Webber’s troubles in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

\"Martin-Whitmarsh-1\"After Webber had a terrible start and then KERS trouble during Sunday’s season opener, Red Bull boss Christian Horner said: “You need to ask McLaren why the ECU didn’t work”.<\/p>\n

McLaren subsidiary MES (McLaren Electronic Systems) mandatorily supplies electronic control units to every team in F1.<\/p>\n

A new unit for 2013, in preparation for the radical new V6 engine rules next year, caused several problems in recent winter testing.<\/p>\n

Martin Whitmarsh, the McLaren team principal, told PA Sport he was “distressed” when he heard about Horner’s criticism.<\/p>\n

“We’ll put our hands up if it’s a fault that’s derived from the hardware or the Bios,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You can also inflict ECU problems on yourself by how you set it up, but I will look into it.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be disappointed if it is our fault because in F1, Nascar and Indycar, we’ve not yet stopped a car, and we’re very proud of that record.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as McLaren grapples with its uncompetitive new MP4-28, Horner admitted his surprise that the British team scrapped the successful 2012 car in favour of a radical design.<\/p>\n

“I think McLaren had a very good car last year,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Arguably for large parts of the season they had the fastest car, so they will know their own reasons why they have chosen to go the route they have.”<\/p>\n

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McLaren has hit back at arch-rival Red Bull’s claims that the British team was responsible for Mark Webber’s troubles in Melbourne. After Webber had a terrible start and then KERS trouble during Sunday’s season opener, Red Bull boss Christian Horner said: “You need to ask McLaren why the ECU didn’t work”. McLaren subsidiary MES (McLaren …<\/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":[128,4378,5262,5340,165,491,5284,4379,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019"}],"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=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18020,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions\/18020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}