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Norris bemoans McLaren’s “stunning” long-run tempo in Las Vegas
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Norris bemoans McLaren’s “stunning” long-run tempo in Las Vegas

Motorsports November 22, 2024
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Lando Norris described his McLaren’s long-run tempo on the Las Vegas Grand Prix as “stunning” – as he reckoned he may drive a highway automotive faster.

The Briton ended second follow on Thursday night simply 0.011 seconds behind pacesetter Lewis Hamilton within the Mercedes, however he was removed from pleased with how issues performed out.

On a day when the chilly temperatures and the low-grip monitor floor made issues tough for everybody, he mentioned McLaren’s place within the timesheets was flattering contemplating how a lot bother he thought they had been in with entrance tyre graining.

“It is simply very troublesome, tremendous low grip,” he mentioned. “I really feel like I may drive a highway automotive faster than we drive on the minute…”

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Norris mentioned that being personally struggling to beat points with entrance graining, he was not too inspired by the long-run potential of the McLaren on a weekend when he wants outcome to maintain his slim championship hopes alive.

“I believe the low-fuel stuff has been okay,” he defined. “The high-fuel, that was stunning. So, yeah, loads of issues to look into.

“This type of mixtures of issues, and once we battle with the entrance graining and stuff like that, I am simply not superb at it. So it is at all times a little bit of a battle for me.

Lando Norris, McLaren F1 Workforce, within the storage

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“However we’ve period of time to work on it. So yeah, two halves actually. Good low-fuel and troublesome high-fuel.”

Workforce-mate Oscar Piastri felt that it was troublesome to learn an excessive amount of into the Thursday follow instances as a result of monitor evolution was so speedy that it clouded the true efficiency of groups.

“Each lap we do, the monitor’s getting higher and higher,” mentioned the Australian. “However we knew what to anticipate this time, at the least.

“It has been an attention-grabbing day. I believe the tempo appears affordable, only a little bit of tidying up. And if you do not get the lap right here, then you definately rapidly lose loads of time with the monitor evolving a lot.”

And whereas Mercedes had seemed to have an edge up to now, Piastri felt McLaren was not out of rivalry.

“Mercedes have seemed very fast in the present day,” he added. “Very, very fast. Ferrari’s been fairly robust as properly. However I believe we’re positively within the combine.”

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