This typically involves McLaren positioning Norris’s car as far forward as possible in the grid box during the pre-race procedure, with the placement of the tape then adjusted to Norris’s preference.
After the formation lap had started on Sunday, a Red Bull team member re-entered this gate well area as the pit marshals started to close the gate and did not react when they tried to stop him.
The Race understands that the evidence available showed the team member reached onto the pitwall parallel to Norris’s grid slot.
While the resolution of the cameras does not allow for specific identification of what they were touching on the wall, The Race has been told by multiple sources that there is no question the target was the tape used for Norris’s grid reference.
Red Bull has interfered with the tape at recent races, too, and McLaren is understood to have changed its methods in the US to make it harder to remove.
Meet the NINE rookies in action during Friday's FP1 in Mexico
- Pato O’Ward in for Lando Norris
- Frederik Vesti in for George Russell
- Antonio Fuoco in for Lewis Hamilton
- Arvid Lindblad in for Max Verstappen
- Luke Browning in for Carlos Sainz
- Jak Crawford in for Lance Stroll
- Ryo Hirakawa in for Oliver Bearman
- Ayumu Iwasa in for Liam Lawson
- Paul Aron in for Pierre Gasly
My mistake, Arvid finished P6 with Red Bull ahead of the other Red Bull driver Yuki.I was expecting at least 1-2 of these rookies to finish in the top 10 but no one could manage that.
Fuoco has the raw talent - will be interesting what he can do with that (problematic) Ferrari
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