Lando Norris insists that he doesn’t really feel comfy together with his McLaren regardless of being quickest of all in Friday observe at Spa-Francorchamps.
The McLaren driver was two tenths sooner than crew mate Oscar Piastri as they topped the second observe session forward of Max Verstappen in third.
However regardless of being the quickest of throughout a single lap, Norris was lower than glad with the sensation of his McLaren across the excessive pace Spa circuit.
“It’s nonetheless powerful, nonetheless shut,” Norris informed the official F1 channel after the session. “Pink Bull are very fast on the minute.
“I’ve simply not felt very comfy at the moment with the automotive. Hopefully I simply get up tomorrow and really feel a bit extra comfy with it. However we’re making an attempt to enhance a number of issues.
“I do know it seems to be good on the timesheets, however I’ve not felt tremendous comfy in simply going out and doing it. So hopefully I can simply get in a bit extra of a rhythm and really feel a bit higher on the market.”
Norris says he’s involved that there may not be so much that McLaren can do to the set-up of his automotive earlier than Saturday’s remaining observe session to assist him discover extra confidence in his automotive’s dealing with.
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“I don’t assume it’s so much,” he mentioned. “We’re all the time capable of come to a circuit now and be inside millimetres of margin straightaway.
“It’s not such as you ever actually, change the entire automotive in a single day anymore. Should you do, you’re type of not doing a ok job earlier than the weekend. So we’ve ready nicely and we’ve obtained a superb set-up on the automotive, and it’s working. However simply from my aspect, really simply feeling like I can simply exit and nail it. I’m not fairly there but.”
There’s a excessive danger of rain anticipated to hit the Belgian circuit for Saturday’s qualifying session. Norris says he must determine whether or not to compromise his downforce ranges between a moist qualifying and a dry race on Sunday.
“Usually for the rain, you need to edge in the direction of the excessive downforce, however I don’t assume that’s possibly a route to go in anyway,” he defined.
“However I don’t know simply but. So I’ll sit down with my guys and we’ll speak about it.”
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