Lando Norris enjoyed the 2025 Formula 1 season in the Australian Great Competition. He took a polar post and set the fastest race in his bank and came home with the victory.
But according to his driver, McL39 is still “very difficult to drive.
The description of Noris, which came at the FIA press conference before Chinese greatness, may be surprising in Melbourne. But they talk to the sensitivity of modern F1 cars, and how teams should balance the delivery of the fastest car, with the nature of each driver in the cabin of the pilot.
“I think as a driver, you’re always in your car and what your car can do, so you always try to look at the better places I expect to look at the things I can do better. “My start was good – it wasn’t finished, no, but it was clear where I lost part of my level in the show.
“and then, only from the perspective of the car, the car performs well, but it is still very difficult to drive,” Noris said. “We know that in some circumstances, as in the wetest circumstances, Max (real) was as fast as we are. In dry conditions, we were a little better.
Norris continued, saying that a target for McLaren would make the car more “predict”, but as they started the season, it is difficult to complain.
“So just do the car is a little more predictable and a little comfortable. But it’s at a good point – I can’t complain about everything. “That’s at a good level, but between Oscars and myself, there are things that we both comment on, which gives boys and girls a clear direction in the factory for what we want to improve. The car is very good, but we always want more.
He then asked at the press conference about the difficult nature of McL39, Noris said how the car was not compatible with “style”, but it developed to accept that there may be no “complete” car.
What is important is that “whatever accelerates the car” in his mind.
“It doesn’t fit my driving style yet,” Norris said. “I think I’m close to reaching the level that I’ve just accepted that you can’t have a complete car that suits your style. It may fit some people, but I have asked what I want and only focus on anything that speeds up the car.
To listen to Norris, tell him his job at Maclareen is to drive the car they give, and to drive better than anyone else on the net.
“It seems to be a deceptive car for driving and putting a lap together, but clearly, he has taken a step forward since last year,” Noris continued. “At the end of the day, my job is to drive any car given me. That’s why I’m here. That’s why Maclareen wanted me. They believe I can drive better than others. Half and a half.
McLaren driver — and the current president of the driver championship — then he said in detail what he wants from a car, and how McL39 does not fit with those features.
“It’s similar characteristics and some of the characteristics I don’t like and don’t fit the way I want to drive,” Noris described it. “It doesn’t fit me in terms of me that I want to push the participants and push the brakes. It’s very weak, I say, from that point of view.
Norris then highlighted that some drivers who left the team and drove elsewhere, looking behind him, said how the McLarens “severe or strange” to drive. But since Noris’s entire F1 work has been in favor of the Wocking, the Maclareen car driving is the only thing he knows, and has been able to adapt to it.
“Some things like ‘ this is McLaren’ for those reasons and I ever drove McLarens, so it’s just something I know. I think it’s unique in some ways. I’m used to driving only any car I have until I fight for winning and speed up so that I can be suitable for a win.
Noris continued his speech and took listeners among all the things that engineers need to balance when they try to find the laps time. Make sure the team can find a better climax of Erodinamic, but they often come at the expense of other situations that the team may face in the course.
“I think it’s that Iro’s boys and girls are returning from the factory just trying to find a laptop. You have to balance how the car works.
In terms of what Norris likes to see in a F1 car, he admits that it may be only “very difficult” to get it.
“And certainly, I think some of the things I want in a car is first of all difficult to get. It may be the best answer. For me, a good front of APES, that’s a kind of everything I feel I want. “But I rarely have what I need from that perspective.
“But the car can still win the races. It’s not like that if I’m gone, the car is bad. I can still use the car, if I don’t have what I want. In the minutes, in the minute, in the minute, in the minute, or the car is more sensitive to the wind.
“There are many compromises you have to do and at the end of the day, you only want the best cars of all parties. I think that’s the main answer to all this.
By thinking that he learned as a driver, Noris ended his words, and how he adapted his driving with what the team could give to the trap in the course.
“I think I’ve understood how to drive the car in the past couple of years.
“I think I’ve thrown a kind of one and I just said, ‘Well, give me the best car, and I have to adapt to the car I’m given. It’s not the most comfortable, it’s not what I like. Now that I can use it as much as the most, but in the past year and a half, I have learned more about driving than I did in the past five years.
So far, the adaptation has been effective. We will see whether it continues to be in the Chinese Grand Perse race this week.