Lando Norris hit back on “short-sighted” claims McLaren has an advantage over the rest of the field entering the Australian Grand Prix that opens the season.
McLaren had the fastest car in the second half of last year, because they first won the name of the constructor since 1998. years and they were seemingly strong in the present test last month.
Norris’ Race Simulation of the second day of F1 testing in Bahrain was raised by brows while he was quickly faster than Ferrari Charles Leclerca and Mercedes Kimi Antonelli according to the final part of the long half-year.
Mercedes’ George Russell said McLaren would start the “far strongest” season and his team Chief Toto Wolff said the team team is “clear” in the fastest car.
“I know there are a lot of expectations and that’s what everyone says. My one race that I just made all of that greatly believe,” Norris said, who was at the driver’s championship at the driver’s championship last year.
“It was a good race, but it was also in the most perfect conditions. Oscar started the next day that it was much slower, and not because it was driving worse, but just because the conditions at the final day were significantly slower.
“I’m a lot surprised so many people are so short-sighted, especially people you wouldn’t expect, making so many conclusions before we even started playing that game seems to look insufficient.”
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Lando Norris played the dominance of McLaren saying they were in a similar bala as the rest of the net
Norris: You will be surprised by Ferrari pace
If McLaren is the fastest, testing suggested that it was difficult to divide Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes behind.
While Norris took eight sexual positions last year, a shared language with Verstappen, it was a strong race pace of McLaren, which made a difference on Sunday.
Norris has sent a speech on McLaren’s name, the name of the heads is “great publicity” for the team and told people to watch Ferrari in Melbourne.
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“If I go out this weekend and I’m doing a bad job, who cares what people said in the past. I don’t believe it,” he added.
“I feel like we are in a similar toy field at the top of three teams. I still think it’s the best four (teams). There are many things other people have not seen.
“Other people looked extremely strong, including Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari. I know how much fuel and things, Ferrari had for a lot of testing. You will be surprised how fast this weekend will be.
“People can talk what they want. I think we’ve kept ourselves for us. We want to be quick, we expect to fight there, but I definitely don’t think it will definitely think.”
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Max Verstappen shared an honest reception of Red Bull performance after testing saying they are not the fastest
Re-transfering World Champion Verstappen reiterated on Thursday at Media Day in Melbourne that Red Bull has a “job for it”.
“I know we’re not the fastest right now, but it’s a very long season again,” he said.
“If you set it up here last year, then at the end of the season it looked completely different again, so lots of things can always change quickly in Formula 1.”
Norris and Piastri ‘Free Racing’
Earlier this week, McLaren announced Oscar Piastri that he signed a new perennial expansion of the contract that would mean that their drivers were tied at least 2027. Years.
Piastri and Norris were greatly working together in the track, although there was flash last year.
On Hungary Grand Prikuri, Norris was told repeatedly to let Piastria during the last phases of the race after it undermined his teammate in the pit. In the end, Norris let Piastria go through three rounds to go so that Australian won his race girls F1.
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Six weeks later in Monz, Piastri monitored Norris on opening the circle of Italian Grand Prima when the couple was in the first and second. At the same time, Norris also lost in Charles Leclerc and Driver Ferrari continued to take over victory.
After that incident, McLaren declared Norris would get the advantage to the rest of the season for his position in the driver’s championship. However, in the Grand Azerbaijan Award, Norris slowed Sergio Perez to help Piastria and the latter won the race. Norris also allowed Piastri to win Qatar Sprint just before they reached the Carried Flag.
Piastri will have a home crowd to the side of this weekend and Norris confirmed that they are “free for the race”.
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“There is no rules of papaya. We are happy to go to each other and compete. Of course, we need to know that many many many more things will be a lot of it and I hope it is.
“Our strength has helped each other last season, and always give each other a good amount of room, a racing fair last season and we have to maintain it. It is one of our biggest things as a team and our greatest goal.
“It will always be difficult because we want to win each other. It’s at the end of the day inevitable. But in a minute there are lines we can’t cross as teams.
“We keep both cars on the road and lets not fly Nile. Besides, we are happy to race, we are excited to rub each other and push each other at the border.”
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