McLaren has rotated Carlos Sainz's MCL35 chassis earlier than expected in an attempt to solve a cooling that dogged the Spaniard at Silverstone. Sainz was running higher than normal temperatures last weekend at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix which forced the team to open up the MCL35's cooling ducts, a change that impacted the car's aerodynamics. McLaren could not trace the source of the issue, so has subsequently replaced the Spaniard's monocoque and several components in a bid to solve the cooling problem. "We did different changes to the build of the car, simply to try to understand or exclude the temperature difference that we had in Silverstone," explained McLaren F1 boss...
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