Lando Norris insists new floor ‘delivering what the team expects’ despite 0.3s deficit
"If it was a two,൩ three-tenth upgrade, I think we’d easily be P1, but we’re talking about tiny things, and it’s a lot less than probably what people think on the outside."
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris has insisted McLaren’s new floor upgrade is “delivering exactly what the team expects” despite a 0.3s deficit to Ferrari in F1 qualifying for the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Norris w♊ill start Sunday’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodrigue🃏z from third on the grid.
McLaren led a 1-2 in final practice, but their challeng꧃e fell away as qual🦹ifying progressed.
The Woking-outfit were comprehensively beaten by Ferrari in Austin last time out, le🌳ading McLaren to introduce a new floor upgrade for this weekend.
Even though the gap to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz was ༒around three-tenths, Norris has confirmed the new upgrade is working as intended.
Speaking in the FIA press conference in Mexico, where are present in the paddock𝓰, Norris said: “Nope, it’s delivering exactly what the t🐻eam expects. It helps. But yeah.
“If it was a two, three-tenth upgrade, I think we’d easily be P1, but we’re talk🎉ing about tiny things, and it’s a lot less than probably what people think on the 🎶outside.
“When you talk about upgrades, you normally talk about one, two, three-tenths, and it’s not even that. So ye💯ah.”
Norris feels𒀰 he extracted the maximum from his McLarenཧ in qualifying, admitting he was “at the limit” on his final Q3 lap.
Reflecting on qualifying itself, Norri🌼s added: “I was at the limit, I couldn’t go any qu🍃icker. It’s more that the others just didn’t get the most out of it. Pretty much every corner, I was close to locking up and making mistakes.
“I did that in my Q3 run one lap, but I had definitely꧃ nowhere close to three-tenths left in the car. So it was more that they just went quicker. I was at the limit, I got everything out of the car al🃏ready in Q1 and Q2.
“Made us look like the ones to beat, but honestly since FP1, Ferrari have been the guys to beat, and Carlos is on top today. Challenging to beat them ඣtomorrow.”
Norris will look to cut 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen's 57-point lead in the drivers' championship, with the Red Bull driv♕er starting one place ahead in🌃 second.
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