'So that was actually the time difference between what Max was doing and what I was doing.'
Lando Norris has refuted suggestions McLaren have the fastest car, revealing it was his tyre delta to Max Verstappen in Spain that made the difference in their lap times.
Norris emerged from the pits after his second stop some eight seconds down on Verstappen but with his tyres three laps newer, he was able to close the gap to 2.2s. “So that was actually the time difference between what Max was doing and what I was doing. Not that we were miles quicker on just an outright lap basis. I think that we had a good strategy that we looked so much quicker.”He believes it’s the “tiny little things” that are making the difference in his battles against Verstappen and Red Bull such as those “couple of metres” at the start in Spain.
“But I want to be the best so just in every little area there’s all these little things, just a little bit more preparation, or a bit more practice on Fridays or Saturdays and getting these things nailed down. “Again, like I said, after all the reviews we’ve done, I’m very happy with how, as soon as we got through Turn One and even the reaction in Turn One, I could have easily tried to be a hero and gone around outside of Max, and that only would have caused a crash, and I would have ended up taking George out so I think I was smart in doing that.
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