Overview
- Liam Lawson stopped with an electrical fault early in FP2 at Barcelona on Friday, forcing the car to be brought back to the garage and triggering a virtual safety car.
- Engineers diagnosed and repaired the small electrical problem during the session and sent Lawson back out late to complete a brief shakedown.
- The stoppage left Lawson with reduced FP2 mileage and limited qualifying-trim runs, cutting the data he and the team use to set up the car for Saturday’s qualifying.
- Team principal Alan Permane and Lawson said the updates brought from Montreal are performing well on the high-speed Barcelona layout and that it was better to find the fault in practice than in qualifying or the race.
- The incident follows earlier reliability troubles this season, including a Miami gearbox problem and a Montreal hydraulic/CDS failure, and raises the risk that recurring faults could hamper future qualifying or race performance.