A McLaren team member was hospitalised after the fire that caused the evacuation of their motorhome ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix.

Smoke was detected by those in the building – including journalists at a media brunch – before they were ordered to leave.

Pirelli’s head of F1 and car racing Mario Isola – who is a part-time paramedic – was said to be one of the first responders on the scene.

He and some of his colleagues from the tyre company rushed into the building with fire extinguishers to try and tame the flames.

It wasn’t long before the Team Hub hospitality unit was cleared, with fire engines and ambulances racing arriving in the paddock.

Lando Norris and his McLaren team were today dramatically evacuated from their motorhome at the Spanish Prix when a fire broke out (pictured above)

The area of the paddock was cleared as fire engines and ambulances came in (pictured above)

Four of the fire marshals who had rushed in left the hospitality area with masks, one on a stretcher, one in a wheelchair, one walking, and another was driven off in an ambulance

Four of the fire marshals who had rushed in left the hospitality area with masks, one on a stretcher, one in a wheelchair, one walking, and another was driven off in an ambulance.

Two of those four fire marshals were taken to a local hospital with suspected fire inhalation while the other two were released after assessment at the track.

Norris and his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri were evacuated safely, with the Brit being pictured standing on the pavement in his socks.

Meanwhile, Team principal Zak Brown watched on from as close to the scene as the security cordon allowed and smoke filled the hot air.

The Pirelli and Alpine motorhomes, which flank McLaren, were also evacuated as smoke continued to seep out more than two hours after the fire started.

The fire – which is said to have started in the kitchen – broke out just before noon, half an hour before third practice was due to start at the Circuit de Catalunya.

However, the practice still went ahead as planned.

Earlier marshals had gone into the three-storey building with fire extinguishers – some were wheeled out or carried out in ambulances, having gone in without breathing apparatus

The fire broke out just before noon, half an hour before third practice was due to start

McLaren issued a statement as qualifying started four hours after the fire started, saying: ‘This morning a fire was detected in our trackside hub.

‘The hub was evacuated of all staff and guests, and circuit emergency services attended the scene within minutes. The circuit emergency services and local fire department have since extinguished the fire.

One McLaren team member has been taken to hospital as a precaution, and all McLaren personnel and guests are accounted for.’

This is not the first fire incident at the Spanish Grand Prix, with the Williams garage famously going up in flames after fuel caught in 2012.