McLaren must match the gains Ferrari made between 2021 and 2022 seasons, says Lando Norris, after the British team slipped to fifth in the F1 standings last year.
failed to win at the start of the second ground-effects F1 era last year, with Norris achieving a sole team podium in the Emilia Romagna GP.
The struggles with its MCL36 left the Woking outfit to take its first major competitive backwards step since the start of its Andreas Seidl-led recovery plan.while it waits for its new simulator and wind tunnel to be completed. In an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com, Norris reckons his team must match 2022 runner-up and four-time GP winner“Going from where they were [in 2021], from almost getting beat by us, to going to where they are getting wins, fighting for podiums every single weekend…That's what we need to be aiming for.“They've obviously had, not the luck, but they've maximised a new era, a new rules set for Formula 1 with new cars, which has allowed them to make a bigger jump than ever.
“It's just that final hurdle, the final thing to get us up to the same level to then have no excuse against Red Bull,While Norris is contracted to McLaren until the end of 2025, he concedes that his impatience to win has been exacerbated by ex-team-mate
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