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 snug throughout the MCL39.
“That’s not how I feel,” Norris mentioned of retaining his lead. “It most likely ought to 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 pleased concerning the consequence.
“Third’s not horrendous. I feel one of the best I may have carried out 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 have to preserve my head down and preserve working arduous 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 have to 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 completely different avenues to discover this weekend in Saudi Arabia with regards to 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 nice. It’s clearly a bit extra my qualifying. I went by means of rather a lot [on Saturday] evening. I left late. I spent a number of time attempting 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 have to get again house and get working with my group and see what we will uncover.”
