Lando Norris “expected a bit more” despite Singapore F1 pole

Lando Norris was not entire🦂ly satisfied with his pole position lap at the Singapore Grand Prix.

Lando Norris
Lando Norris

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris says he “expected a bit more” from his McLaren F1 car d🏅espite taking pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix.

Norris was 0.203 seconds quicker than title rival168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen in a one-lap shootout for pole as the two championship protagonists locked out the fron✅t-row of the grid in qualifying.

But the Briton 🦩was not entirely satisfied with his lap, admitting it was “not particularly good”.

“Just because𝔉 it’s difficult. It’s hard to do everything around here in one lap,” he explained.

“So I was a bit down in the first sector, probably a couple of tenths, and then I felt like I had to try and push a bit harder in the middle sector to make up for 🍌it and that🤪 kind of thing.

“But it still felt good. We’ve been good all weekend. Just struggled to progress much from practice into quali. We just found a good set-up there and 🎃stuck and didn’t really progress at all, really.

“I went only a touch quicker than what I did in FP3. So I expected a bit more and probably found it a bit more difficult than I would have liked 💟in Q1, Q2 and Q3.

“But tꩵhe car’s been amazing all weekend, so it felt good and felt c൩omfortable just to go out and put the lap in.”

Lando Norris
Lando Norris

Norris added⭕: “I think we’ve just done a very good job at arriving at the track and the car works well.

“I mean, we haven’t touched the caꦅr all weekend. Mainly because no matter what we do, it doesn’t really make much difference.

“We’ve kind of just had the car and not had to d✃o a lot to it, but that’s also a good thing in many ways.

“🏅But it was still a handful to dri🤡ve in the end, like the Q3 lap at the end was tough with locking, with the bumps.

“I made quite a few mistakes, so the car was still tricky to drive𒆙, but very quick. And that just allows me to drive at 99% and still deliver, so just a combination of several꧅ things.”

Norris goes into Sunday’s race hoping to further e♏at into Verstappen’s 59-point championship lead.

Asked how confident he is, Norris replie꧒d: "I mean, quite a bit. We’ve been very good all weekend. People have caught up, clearly.

“We’ve gone into quali there and clearly Max improved a lot from yest♓erday into today. Mercedes as well, they were very quick in Q2, so they were there.

“They were up there on my tails, a bit close f🅰or my liking, comparing to what I had in FP3 and things.

“But I’m confident that the car is good in both quali an🅰d race. We showed that already on Friday.

“So I’m confident if I can just get ahead, then I get my ♛head down and can go away.”

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