Lando Norris is regarded as one of the championship’s most talented and promising racers until the McLaren car allows him to give his best. At the same time, the 23-year-old Briton himself admits that, although he feels the strength to fight for victories, he will apparently have to be patient a little longer.
Lando will desperately need it as his current contract with McLaren runs until 2025 and if the team does not show any noticeable progress then there will be less cause for celebration than he and his fans would like.
Jenson Button, who also once worked with the team from Woking, is generally surprised that Norris decided to sign such a long-term contract with her.
“I was surprised when he signed a long-term contract,” said the 2009 world champion. – In our sport you can’t predict who will be ahead and you have to get behind the wheel of a car that you can fight for victories. Talent alone is not enough to win races.
Of course you can help the team fine-tune the car, but if you want to win you need a competitive car now. McLaren cannot provide Lando with such a car. This team is doing well, but he has already reached the stage in his career where he needs a really fast car.
Let’s see how the situation develops over the next two years, but I really hope that teams like McLaren, Alpine and Aston Martin can catch up and even challenge the top three. After all, this was the idea when everyone moved to limited budgets and when the top teams decided to reduce the time for research in the wind tunnel.
Teams that finish in first place will be able to spend much less time on such research next year than rivals. I hope that we will see the effect of these measures already in 2023, and in 2024 it should be even more pronounced.
But Lando is still young, can compete at a high level for a long time and is a very fast driver. Now he has a new partner, Oscar Piastri, who is also very talented. But both will experience strong pressure, especially since Piastri is a debutant and will immediately drive a more or less competitive car.”
Source: F1 News
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