Lando Norris says he doesn’t perceive how he’s nonetheless main the drivers’ championship after struggling a lot along 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 mentioned he doesn’t take the positives out of his championship place as he focuses on attempting to get comfy inside the MCL39.
“That’s not how I feel,” Norris mentioned of retaining his lead. “It in all probability must be how I feel, nevertheless it’s not how I feel. 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 comfortable in regards to the outcome.
“Third’s not horrendous. I feel the most effective I might have carried out is second. I simply made my life too tough with too many errors with the beginning, with the [Lewis] Hamilton factor. So, I’m shocked. Everybody says I’m main the championship, I don’t understand how on the minute! So I’m fairly shocked.
“I simply have to maintain my head down and maintain working laborious as a result of I’m not assured, I’m not comfy, 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 have to in some way look into why they’re not clicking, nevertheless it’s not proving to be too simple.”
Norris says he has a couple of totally different avenues to discover this weekend in Saudi Arabia in terms of his qualifying tempo, believing that’s the place the foundation of his issues are to be discovered.
“I feel my race tempo is ok. My race tempo is sweet. It’s clearly a bit extra my qualifying. I went by rather a lot [on Saturday] night time. I left late. I spent a whole lot of time attempting to look into what occurred, why I struggled a lot, why I’m not feeling assured.
“I suppose we sort of narrowed down to a couple issues, not perhaps clear solutions and definitive solutions, however a couple 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 have to get again residence and get working with my group and see what we are able to uncover.”
