Lando Norris could leave McLaren as “F1 contracts not worth paper they're written on”, says Ted Kravitz
The talented British driver was spotted punching a wall in frustration after preseason testing at Bahrain, after McLar🍬en already conceded their 2023 de💙velopment was behind schedule.
Norris signed a contract committing to McLaren until the end of 2026 but, if they can’t deliver him the machinery to compete for an F1 c൩hampionship, Kravitz believes he c꧂ould find a way out.
“As for Lando, we’ve learnt by now that drivers’ contracts are not worth the paper they’re written on, and 🅷absolutely he could move anywhere at any time ⛄if the price is right, if a top team or a team with a more competitive car comes in for him, as they say in football, and taps him up, then anything’s possible,” he said.
“There’s n🦂o contract that can’t𒈔 be got out of and if Lando loses the faith, then it’s absolutely possible he could move.
“But where wou🐭ld be the team that would come ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚin for him?
“There have been tentative discussions (with Red Bull), but you also r🅷eflect that for a while in the past Zak Brown was advising Lando’s management team and they were very close to each other, so that might be slightly harder t𝔉o get out of.”
McLaren’s spot at the 🦩top of the midfield has been threatened by a below-par wꦿeekend at testing, and the apparent emerge of Aston Martin.
Kravitz said ab▨out McLaren’s h♔opes: “There have been various rumours about their technical team and how maybe they need to add to it. I think James Key is a good technical director but I think there is a little bit more depth that they could go into.
“I’m not sure he has as many people alongside him, or behind him, or with him that the other teams have kindꦜ of grown to, so I think they could certainly do with strengthening the technical group they’ve got at McLaren.
“I think James Key is good and he could do with some more good people alongside him with some fres𝓰h views, from other teams perhaps.”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jenson Button, the ex-F1 champion, also questioned Norris’ decision to pen a long-term contract at McLaren without seeing proof of a car that could win the𝐆 title.
Norris laughed it off: “I respect peopl🐼e’s opinions – particularly Jenson’s becaus♕e he has been through a lot of these times – so I take it all on board.
“I don’t ignore it, I get what he is saying a little bit. But if someone says c**p about me, t🀅hen cool I will laugh about it and move on. Big deal. A few years ago I probably would have taken it a bit more to heart.”
James wa❀s a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American spor🎃ts, to football, to F1.
