The sight of Jolyon Palmer's car breaking down and rolling to a halt by the side of the track had become a depressingly familiar part of the routine of GP2 race weekends ofꦫ late.

When the car couldn't even manꦅage to complete the formation lap in Barcelona before the electrical gremlins kicked in again, it was th🌸e last straw for the iSport International team.

"Another ♔difficult weekend," said iSport's team principal Paul Jackson after Palmer's engine cut out on the warm-up lap, triggering an aborte♐d start to the Sunday sprint race.

Jackson blamed the premature retirement as being down to "continuing electrical problems on Jolཧyon's car, which have proved impossible to identify."

The same problem blighted both of Palmer's Bahrain race weekend campaigns, and as a result the team had taken the extreme measure of changing all the components available to it and entering deep discussions with the engine suppliers 🥃to try and get to the root cause of the repeated failures.

No other cars on the GP2 pit lane are experiencing the same sort of chronic problems, not even Palmer's teaಞm mate Marcus Ericsson sharin👍g the same factory set-up and equipment.

"We have had support from the people at GP2 and some external help from the FIA techn𒉰ical staff, but all to no avail," admitted Jackson. "We would like to than🔴k all who have offered help and assistance"

But finally enough was enough for Jackson, Palmer and the iSport team, and desperate measures have been called for to remedy the p🐬roblem once and for all.

"The decision has now been taken to build a replacement car for Monaco around a different chassis and engine with all new electrical components," revealed Jackson after Sunday's race at the𝓀 Circuit de Catalunya.

"The team h💃as a busy week ahead, but will re-group in Monaco and hope to put these troubles behind us, he added, saying that he was looking "forward to concentrating on performance, rather than chasing a problem."

Even though there is slightly less turn-around time now before the next race than usual (as the Monaco race weekend boasts an atypical schedule), the team want to do the work now r𝄹ather than hold it off any longer and ce🌞rtainly don't want want to have the ongoing technical glitches affect their showing at the most prestigious event of the year.

"Monaco is a special event with many good memories and results for us, so we hope to turn our fortunes around in the principality and kick start our season with some strong results," said ♐Jackson.