Andrea Stella said Lando Norris’s breakthrough from 17th at the start of the Mexico City Grand Prix to 5th at the finish was one of the best races he, the McLaren team boss, has ever seen in his Formula 1 career had seen.
On Saturday, Lando dropped out of qualifying due to the conditions in the first session and had a difficult race ahead of him on a circuit where it is quite difficult to regain positions. However, he coped with the task perfectly, demonstrating masterful overtaking ability – his maneuvers on the Mexican highway attracted everyone’s attention.
“We had a conversation on the McLaren pit wall about this subject: Will Joseph, Norris’s racing engineer, turned to me and said, ‘This is one of Lando’s best races,’” said Stella. “And I said, ‘Will, this is one of the best races ever!’
Lando has done so many overtakings, and this is in Mexico City, although you can read what everyone said about it on Saturday: overtaking is very difficult because you have to control the temperature of the power unit, which requires you to switch off the engine. gas and coast.
In a word, I am very impressed. This is one of the best races by a driver I have been involved in.”
Stella’s words are worth a lot because during his time at Ferrari he worked with both Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso.
“This race brought back memories of the 2012 European Grand Prix in Valencia,” he continued. – Fernando then started eleventh and we won that race. But now in Mexico City, on the one hand we are excited because we saw a kind of masterpiece of Lando perform, but there is also another side, because the speed of the car allowed us to fight for the podium.
I want to say that there is a little reason for frustration, although after qualifying I didn’t think we would be able to stay ahead of so many cars on Sunday. That’s why I prefer to highlight the positive aspects of the race and I hope that our whole team, including everyone working at the base in Woking, and all our fans took it this way: we are not giving up, we are still competitive, but Over Overall we need to get things done better on all days of the race weekend.”
Source: F1 News
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