Lando Norris says he doesn’t perceive how he’s nonetheless main the drivers’ championship after struggling a lot together with his McLaren, however is assured he’ll carry out at his finest once more as soon as he finds options.
Oscar Piastri’s victory within the Bahrain Grand Prix closed him to inside three factors of Norris on the high of the standings, with Max Verstappen slipping again to 3rd place total and eight factors off the lead. Norris completed third on Sunday behind Piastri and George Russell, and stated he doesn’t take the positives out of his championship place as he focuses on making an attempt to get snug inside the MCL39.
“That’s not how I believe,” Norris stated of retaining his lead. “It in all probability needs to be how I believe, nevertheless it’s not how I believe. To complete third, to get some extra factors on the board, to maintain the championship and simply my race alive was factor, however I’m not completely happy concerning the consequence.
“Third’s not horrendous. I believe one of the best I might have accomplished is second. I simply made my life too troublesome with too many errors with the beginning, with the [Lewis] Hamilton factor. So, I’m stunned. Everybody says I’m main the championship, I don’t understand how on the minute! So I’m fairly stunned.
“I simply must preserve my head down and preserve working laborious as a result of I’m not assured, I’m not snug, and I do know what I can do. I do know what I can obtain. It’s not gone, I’ve not misplaced it. It’s simply issues aren’t clicking and I must by some means look into why they’re not clicking, nevertheless it’s not proving to be too simple.”
Norris says he has a number of totally different avenues to discover this weekend in Saudi Arabia with regards to his qualifying tempo, believing that’s the place the basis of his issues are to be discovered.
“I believe my race tempo is okay. My race tempo is nice. It’s clearly a bit extra my qualifying. I went by way of lots [on Saturday] evening. I left late. I spent lots of time making an attempt to look into what occurred, why I struggled a lot, why I’m not feeling assured.
“I assume we type of narrowed down to a couple issues, not perhaps clear solutions and definitive solutions, however a number of causes of why perhaps I’ve been struggling a bit extra right here and there with my qualifyings and the tempo and stuff.
“However I do know what I’m able to doing. I do know I can exit and get poles and I can win races by good margins. However one thing’s not simply doing what it ought to, and I don’t know what that’s. I must get again house and get working with my staff and see what we will uncover.”
