What Lando Norris is “not happy” about with McLaren's F1 car
Land🅷o Norris feels McLaren have work to do over one lap ahead 🙈of qualifying in Australia.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris says he is “not happy” or “confident” with his McLaren F1 car despite appearing to make a strong start at🍒 the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
The Briton topped first practice in Melbourne and ended up third-quickest in the second session, just over a tenth adrift of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc’s pacesetting Ferrari.
On paper, at least, ༺it looked like a strong start to th🔴e weekend for McLaren, who are viewed as the early favourites by their rivals heading into the 2025 season.
But Norris’s reaction to the first day of running in Australia was not hugely positive as he highlighteꦉd some early concerns with the outright pace of his MCL39 challenger.
Lando Norris reacts to F1 Australian GP practice
"So, so,” Norris repli🐓ed when asked how his Friday went🤪.
“It’s been a good start to the w🥀eekend, I think we’ve got a good baseline but ไcertainly not happy, like not confident with the car in terms of finding the best balance and being consistent enough, especially on low fuel.
"High fuel, I fel💛t good. Just low fuel was s💖till similar to Bahrain, too many inconsistencies, too many problems, so a bit of a struggle.”
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Norris said on Thursday that his rivals are “short-sighted” for branding McLaren as the team to beat ꦓbased on pre-season testing alone.
"I'm quite surprised so many people are so short-sighted, especially peopl🎉e you wouldn't expect to be, making so many conclusions before you eꦫven start the season,” he said.
"Everyone just wants to play that game of l🧸ooking like the underdog and playing it down."
Teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri, who edged Norris to thꦑe second-fastest time in FP2 by just 0.017s, was more encouraged by McLaren’s early showing.
"It was prettyꦉ encouraging,” the home hero said. "The pace was pretty solid. Still a few things to iron out to make the car feel a bit nicer but the underlying pace was s💜trong.
“I’m hapꩲpy with the days’ work. I think conditions will be different the next two days, so how much today means I don’t know bꦏut it feels good.”
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