McLaren endures another damage to its motorhome as heavy rain hit the Hungaroring paddock

Just two weeks after the Woking-based outfit completed the excessive repair job on its Team Hub, McLaren motorhome suffered damage at the Hungaroring as a heavy rain fall hit the track today.

McLaren's motorhome was damaged during the Spanish Grand Prix. On Saturday morning, fire was detected in McLaren’s motorhome shortly before Free Practice 3 of the Spanish Grand Prix.

The Team Hub had to be evacuated with Lando Norris having also been among those evacuated as the blaze broke out. Following the incident, the Briton suggested that the motorhome might have sustained irreparable damage, but McLaren has stated that the motorhome might return in full operation before the summer break.

For the Austrian Grand Prix that took place only a week after the Barcelona round, McLaren sourced a smaller motorhome to complete the weekend. Their own Team Hub could be repaired much earlier than hoped as the team was able to use it at Silverstone in its home race.

While extremely hot weather has dominated Hungary for the last two weeks with temperatures reaching over 35 degres Celsius, heavy rain, accompanied by hail, lightning and strong winds, flooded pit lane today.

As a result of the short, but intense rain fall, the roof of McLaren's Team Hub was ripped off by storm winds. Furthermore, a large video screen at the entrance to pit lane has been brought down as well.

Commenting on the weather conditions, F1Technical's lead journalist Balazs Szabo who lives in Budapest, reported that the scorching weather conditions have been almost unbearable since the 7th of July. Fortunately, temperatures are set to drop by a couple of degrees for the weekend, but they can still reach 34 degree Celsius on all three days of the Hungarian Grand Prix.