Lando Norris laughs off ‘favourite’ tag given by George Russell: "Has he been watching the races?"

Mercedes’168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell tipped the McLaren driver to potentially challenge the Red Bulls at the front of the grid at Suzuka given their MCL60 ha🦋s been competitiv⛎e in high-speed corners.
“Lando’s potentially one ofꦉ the favouritꦚes for this weekend with their high-speed performance in the McLaren. But all the question marks are on Red Bull,” Russell said on Thursday.
Informed of Russell’s predicti✨on, Norris, who finished ꧟second in Singapore, laughed: “Has he seen the rest of the season at all? Has he been watching the races?”
Norris finished third-fastest in both practice sessions on Friday and ended the day 0.464s off 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s chart-topping FP2 time.
Asked if he felt good in the car, the Briton replied: “No, not really. The pace was there. The p൩ace has been♔ pretty good today, probably one of the closest times we’ve been to Red Bull and the front on a Friday.

“So it’s encouraging fro🙈m a pace point of view but the car feels pretty all over the place. I think it probably does for the majority. It’s very low grip, I don’t think it’s just us in particular it’s just a handful.
“If we can just try and cal꧑m it down a little bit and get the balance together I think we can have a good day tomorrow. The pace is good, just difficult to drive.”
And Norris doubts challenging for pole position will be a realistic aim for McLaren 🃏come qualifying.
“I doubt it’s going to be pole,” h𝓰e said. “The Red Bulls are just doing normal Red Bulls at the minute.
“I think we aren’t far𒆙 away. I would say we normalꦕly get a bit closer when we go to low fuel and turn the engines up. I think challenging for pole is quite a big task and probably a bit too far.
“But we have to try and challenge Mercedes, the Ferraris and Astons. Iꦛ think that will be our battle tomorrow.”
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