Listen to this article The Woking-based team enjoyed a strong first test in Barcelona, but it all went wrong in the second week in Bahrain when it encountered brake overheating problems. That limited its running and put it on the back foot for last weekend’s F1 opener, where it also struggled with a lack of grip and neither Lando Norris nor Daniel Ricciardo finished in the points. The team admits that the Bahrain brake issues caught it completely by surprise, and they have still not been fully resolved as overcoming the problem is not straightforward. Reflecting on the circumstances that triggered the woes, Key says that the original brake duct design passed all the criteria that McLaren had for brakes – but other influences of the 2022 rule changes were not anticipated. “I think, in a way, it demonstrates how fresh these cars are and how much there is still to learn about how to get them right,” he explained. “I think the brake duct thing was a really strange anomaly in that it passed every criteria we had for cooling, yet didn’t work. “You think: ‘well what the hell’s g …