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Andrea Stella on Lando Norris’ qualifying crash: ‘These F1 vehicles are too quick to assume’
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Andrea Stella on Lando Norris’ qualifying crash: ‘These F1 vehicles are too quick to assume’

Motorsports April 23, 2025
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Following Lando Norris’ Jeddah qualifying shunt, McLaren group boss Andrea Stella says his driver remains to be not in a position to drive his 2025 automotive instinctively.

Norris crashed on his first Q3 flyer, shedding management over his McLaren as he drifted throughout the unsettling Flip 4 kerbs, veering into the wall.

It relegated the Briton from the struggle for pole to tenth on the grid, whereas Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen went on to pip Norris’ team-mate Oscar Piastri by 0.010s.

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Norris’ newest qualifying faux-pas, which he inevitably slammed himself for afterwards, feeds a story that the 25-year-old is within the doldrums as McLaren made its automotive faster by inadvertently introducing components that made it more durable for him to drive it on the restrict.

However after a Bahrain Grand Prix weekend by which Norris seemed bereft of confidence within the automotive, he had really been extra comfy aboard the MCL39 in Jeddah and had been proper there with Piastri till his Q3 crash.

Stella confirmed impressions that Norris had made a step along with his machine, however defined his driver was nonetheless missing that closing one p.c of concord with how he expects his automotive to behave on absolutely the restrict, which value him dearly on a quick avenue circuit the place most errors will find yourself within the wall.

“Lando this weekend was undoubtedly fairly aggressive. Each single session, each set of tyres, he put collectively good laps,” Stella mentioned when requested in regards to the crash by Motorsport.com. “However I feel in Q3, when Lando tries to squeeze a couple of extra milliseconds out of the automotive, what we see is that the automotive simply would not reply as he expects.

Lando Norris, McLaren, Andrea Stella, McLaren

Picture by: Clive Rose / Getty Pictures

“So, this can be a behaviour that stunned him. The automotive understeered a bit in Flip 4, ended up on the skin kerb, and this outdoors kerb will be fairly unforgiving.

“What’s occurring is an episode that begins from a number of the work that now we have executed on the automotive. It made the automotive sooner total, however it took one thing away from Lando by way of predictability as soon as he pushes the automotive on the restrict.”

Stella drew parallels between Norris’ plight and that of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, who can also be struggling the get the total potential out of his Ferrari over one lap, with Hamilton saying he was relieved to be as excessive as seventh on the grid regardless of being effectively behind team-mate Charles Leclerc.

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As Verstappen broke the high-speed Jeddah observe file as soon as extra, Stella felt the present era of F1 vehicles was “too quick to assume”, which means a driver must be totally at one with the automotive to have the ability to drive it on intuition, as a result of there is no such thing as a time to second guess the way it will behave.

“These vehicles are so quick, they’re so demanding by way of simply adopting a really pure driving fashion,” he defined. “We hear this even from Hamilton, a seven-time world champion, and but he talks about driving the automotive in a pure method, as a result of these vehicles are too quick to assume.

“You both get what you anticipate from the automotive, or you are going to be gradual, and Lando would not settle for to be gradual. So, it is our duty to make it possible for we give him a automotive that’s on the degree of his expertise, and to attempt to appropriate this behaviour, as a result of we would like Lando to be assured and cozy that he can push the automotive.”

Photographs from Saudi Arabian GP – Apply & Qualifying

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