Lando Norris hailed McLaren’s strongest weekend of the season as far as the workforce recovered from pointless weekends in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to complete the Australian Grand Prix within the high 10.
Throughout an action-packed race, Norris and residential hero teammate Oscar Piastri capitalized on the drama round them as they moved up from the mid-group grid slots to P6 and P8 respectively, pushing McLaren from the underside to fifth within the builders rankings.
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Talking after the race, Norris mentioned: “Completely our greatest weekend ever. All my feedback and emotions [after qualifying]My expectations weren’t too excessive, however really the pace was a bit nearer since Lap 1 in comparison with some automobiles round us – like AlphaTauri, Haas.
“I felt a bit of bit quicker, so I may race towards them and really have some enjoyable, assault and have some racing motion. [it was] good day. P6 is a few respectable factors for us, similar factor for Oscar to have factors on the similar time.
“We stayed out of bother at the moment, which is the most important problem to maintain folks from getting locked up and inflicting chaos, so I am completely happy; The workforce did a very good job and we deserved it.”
Norris says ‘our greatest weekend ever’ after Australian Grand Prix scores double for McLaren
Norris was requested in regards to the improve bundle McLaren will deliver to the subsequent spherical in Azerbaijan on the finish of April, and whether or not it is going to actually assist them begin the season.
“The season began some time in the past. I hate when folks say that as a result of it is, you recognize… the identical for everybody. We must always have been on it earlier than and we weren’t,” he mentioned.
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“I feel we tried to take a look at it from that angle; we have been a bit of unfortunate earlier than and at the moment issues went a bit of higher and we should be [there]. However we’ve got upgrades, we’ve got some issues…
“I do not wish to get too enthusiastic about all this as a result of I can not say that Baku will assist us probably the most in all of the sluggish corners, however I additionally hope it is a step ahead.”
“The workforce is working very laborious. [at the factory] and right here [at the track] Making ready all the things for Baku, so sure, due to the workforce; They’ve executed an ideal job, they’ve labored laborious, they’ve labored laborious, and a day like at the moment reveals that it is paying off.”
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