
O’Ward, who remains firmly in the title hunt with four rounds to go, qualified fifth in the Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet for tomorrow’s race, but said he found the slow sections of the track “horrible” due to the lack of ventilation in his cockpit.
Asked to confirm what he said on the NBC Peacock broadcast during morning practice – that AMSP doesn’t yet have the facility to run a cool-suit system – the 23-year-old Mexican ace replied: “Yeah, we don't have them. It's horrible in the car. It's unbearable.