Norris reveals McLaren plan to BEAT Verstappen despite F1 dominance
Norris reveals McLaren plan to BEAT Verstappen despite F1 dominance
Lando Norris has claimed that McLaren's time to claim their first win of the season will come by the end of the 2023, stating he was happy to have "finally proved some people wrong."
The Woking-based team were arguably the slowest car on the grid for the opening couple of races in Bahrain and Jeddah, but have steadily climbed the order since.
McLaren had settled nicely into the midfield before taking a major step forward at the British Grand Prix, securing their first podium of the season.
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With Norris claiming back-to-back P2 finishes and Oscar Piastri finishing in P4 and P5 at Silverstone and the Hungaroring respectively, McLaren are now an established frontrunner in 2023.
Norris: Patience is key
When asked after the Hungarian Grand Prix whether he could win a race this season, Norris replied: "If Max [Verstappen] retires, or something, then maybe.
"At the minute, the guys are too quick. Unless they make mistakes or something happens… but at the moment, I think we’re very happy with the progress we’ve made.
"To go from where we were four, five races ago, struggling to get out of Q1 sometimes, to fighting for poles, and fighting for podiums, we’ll take it for now, and our time will come later on in the year."
Norris then touched on what McLaren have been doing to hunt down Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari at the front end of the grid.
"Just the obvious answer: a lot of hard work; great teamwork; everyone back in the factory did an amazing job.
"I think we knew it in the beginning: we were going to struggle and we looked pretty poor.
"We got a lot of abuse for McLaren, saying we weren’t doing a good-enough job. I’m happy we finally proved some people wrong."
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F1 Standings
Drivers
- Charles Leclerc
- Carlos Sainz
- Lando Norris
- Oscar Piastri
- Pierre Gasly
- Esteban Ocon
- Sergio Pérez
- Max Verstappen
- Alexander Albon
- Logan Sargeant
- Lewis Hamilton
- George Russell
- Nico Hülkenberg
- Kevin Magnussen
- Fernando Alonso
- Lance Stroll
- Valtteri Bottas
- Zhou Guanyu
- Nyck De Vries
- Liam Lawson
- Daniel Ricciardo
- Yuki Tsunoda
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- Gulf Air Grand Prix of Bahrain 2023
- Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2023
- Grand Prix of Australia 2023
- Grand Prix of China 2023
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- Miami Grand Prix 2023
- Qatar Airways Gran Premio Del Made In Italy E Dell'emilia Romagna 2023
- Grand Prix of Monaco 2023
- AWS Gran Premio de España 2023
- Grand Prix du Canada 2023
- Grand Prix of Austria 2023
- Aramco Grand Prix of Great Britain 2023
- Grand Prix of Hungary 2023
- Grand Prix of Belgium 2023
- Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 2023
- Grand Prix of Italy 2023
- Grand Prix of Singapore 2023
- Grand Prix of Japan 2023
- Qatar Grand Prix 2023
- Grand Prix of the United States 2023
- Gran Premio de la Ciudad de Mexico 2023
- Rolex Grande Prêmio de São Paulo 2023
- Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix 2023
- Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi 2023
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