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McLaren insists Norris title was by no means foremost aim, after Brazil setback
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McLaren insists Norris title was by no means foremost aim, after Brazil setback

Motorsports November 5, 2024
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McLaren says that guiding Lando Norris to the drivers’ championship was by no means in the end its foremost goal – because it has all the time been extra targeted on the constructors’ crown.

Norris had a golden alternative to shut down Max Verstappen’s factors benefit within the Brazilian Grand Prix, beginning on pole place together with his rival down in seventeenth on the grid.

But, a mixture of an absence of tempo within the moist, driving errors, brake lock-up issues and a badly timed pink flag meant the Briton completed sixth – with Verstappen producing a sensational efficiency to win.

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That outcome has left him 62 factors adrift of Verstappen with solely three rounds remaining.

Whereas the Brazil final result is a disappointment for Norris in private phrases, McLaren says it adjustments nothing in its method, as a result of the staff was solely ever actually fascinated by the constructors’ battle anyway.

Requested by Motorsport.com about how the Brazil outcome would affect the method to the ultimate races, and whether or not it could truly take some stress off Norris, McLaren staff principal Andrea Stella stated: “When it comes to the constructors’ championship, I don’t assume it adjustments something.

“It was all the time our precedence. Even when there was a name to be made to assist one driver or the opposite, it was all the time secondary to maximising the constructors’ championship.”

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38

Picture by: Lubomir Asenov / Motorsport Photographs

Stella didn’t really feel that the potential of being in a title battle had a lot of an affect on Norris’s efficiency at Interlagos, as he felt each staff and driver knew it was a bonus to be within the combat within the first place.

“Relating to the drivers’ championship, I don’t assume for Lando there was any specific stress,” he stated.

“We had been having fun with this quest, regardless that generally from the skin it might come throughout like there’s an error right here or there perhaps.

“It’s like once we locked the tyres with the automotive like we had [in Brazil] I’m not wanting on the driver, I’m taking a look at why the automotive retains locking the entrance tyres in circumstances like this. I don’t assume stress was a big issue in any respect.

“Mathematically we’re nonetheless within the [drivers’] championship, however I believe for Lando and for Oscar, we are going to go to the following races making an attempt to win the races.

“The final two venues must be fairly good. Vegas can be probably extra of a Ferrari monitor, after which we are going to see. It’s all to play for, and the constructors’ championship stays and has all the time been our precedence.”

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Norris himself has all the time performed down ideas of the title, pondering it was in the end an extended shot to return from up to now again.

Requested how exhausting the Brazil outcome was to digest now that the title dream was all however over, he stated: “Fairly simple. I did all I may right this moment. That is all. Max received the race. Good on him. Effectively finished, however it does not change something for me.”

Whereas Norris misplaced floor within the drivers’ championship in Brazil, McLaren managed to increase its constructors’ benefit over Ferrari by seven factors to 36 factors – which makes it more and more seemingly that the battle will go all the way in which to the ultimate spherical in Abu Dhabi.

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