{"id":18023,"date":"2013-03-20T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18023"},"modified":"2013-03-20T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:00:39","slug":"mclaren-apologises-for-webbers-ecu-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-apologises-for-webbers-ecu-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren apologises for Webber&#8217;s ECU glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren has apologised for an electronic glitch that affected Red Bull&#8217;s Mark Webber during the Australian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>After the Australian driver had a bad start in Melbourne and also a KERS problem, team boss Christian Horner said: &#8220;You need to ask McLaren why the ECU didn&#8217;t work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren subsidiary MES (McLaren Electronic Systems) mandatorily supplies electronic control units to every team in F1.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>But Martin Whitmarsh, the McLaren team principal, said earlier this week that Red Bull could have been responsible for the Melbourne glitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can also inflict ECU problems on yourself by how you set it up, but I will look into it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>That investigation has now been done, and McLaren subsequently apologised to Red Bull in a media statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Woking based company admitted there was a &#8220;software-related issue&#8221; with Webber&#8217;s unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That disrupted his preparations for the start of the race, for which Mark and the team has our apology.\u00a0 We are working together with them to prevent any recurrence,&#8221; said McLaren.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren has apologised for an electronic glitch that affected Red Bull&#8217;s Mark Webber during the Australian grand prix. After the Australian driver had a bad start in Melbourne and also a KERS problem, team boss Christian Horner said: &#8220;You need to ask McLaren why the ECU didn&#8217;t work&#8221;. McLaren subsidiary MES (McLaren Electronic Systems) mandatorily &#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":[128,4378,5262,5340,165,5284,4379,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023"}],"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=18023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18024,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions\/18024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}