McLaren will source an alternative F1 hospitality unit for next weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, has learned.

Dramatic scenes unfold๊ed in the Barcelona F1 paddock on Saturday ahead of final practice when McLaren’s motorhome had to be evacuated after a suspected electrical fire broke out above the kitchen area.

Emergency services and fire crews quickly arrived and helped get the situation under conꦑtrol. One McLaren team member was taken to hospital as a precaution but was later discharged.

und🔯erstands the damage is not too substantial and is mainly isolated to one area of the unit, with the main concern for McLaren being the need to get rid of the smell of smok🌸e.

F1’s governing body the FIA are putting McLaren’s personnel and guests up 🍰for the remainder of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend with their Team Hub out of action.

While it is too early to say what McLaren will do for the upcoming British Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 7, the British squad will source an alternative hospꦕitality unit for next week’s race in Au💯stria as a temporary  solution. 

It is unclear at this stage whether it will be another team’s o𝓀lꦜd motorhome.

After claiming pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris detailed how the fire impacted M𒈔cLaren’s preparations on Saturday.

Norris was seen walking away from McLaren’s hospitality in just his socks, havin🅠g “lost” his shoes during the evacuation.

“The best thing is everyone’s safe, everyone’s doing well,” Norris said. “So that’s probably the best news frﷺom everything. One person was taken to hospital just for some check-ups, but all good otherwise.

“So it was a bit of a scare for the whole team, never a nice thing. But just a bit ෴more of probably a stressful day than I would have liked.”

The 24-year-old Briton also heaped praise oไn rival teams for helping McLaren out following tꦓhe fire.

“I’ve not been in my normal room,” he explained. “I’ve ꧃not been able to maybe relax and chil𒅌l out as much as what I normally do.

“I’ve had a lot of offers from people, so it’s been great. A lot of the teams, honestly, have been very, very nice to us, McLaren, in offer�🙈�ing help and things like that. So that was all good from that side.

“It’s a shame that it won’t be used today or tomorrow, I don’t think, for anything –🌄 maybe not into the future, but that’s not anything that I know ab꧋out for now.”