McLaren's Lando Norris doubts his team are in contention for pole position at Suzuka, but believes his team will be close to the sharp end.
Lando Norris identifies McLaren’s Japanese GP challengers as car feels ‘all over the place’McLaren’s Lando Norris doubts his team are in contention for pole position at Suzuka, but believes his team will be close to the sharp end.
Despite the reasonably strong single-lap pace on display, Norris said pole position is likely out of reach.“I doubt it’s going to be pole, the Red Bull is just doing normal Red Bull at the minute,” he said. “But I think we are not far away. While Norris was up near the top of the timesheets, the British driver said he had found his MCL60 to be downright tricky out on track and complained it had been very difficult to tame.“Probably one of the closest times we’ve been to Red Bull and the front lot on a Friday. So, I think encouraging from a pace point of view, but the car feels pretty all over the place.
Coming into the weekend, Norris had spoken about how he feels the upgrades introduced in Singapore will work at the far more aerodynamically demanding Suzuka circuit.“I think everything did it was what it was meant to do. And I think we definitely took some steps forward.
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