Lando Norris admits that he’s “not proud of a P4” end within the Singapore Grand Prix, with the reigning World Champion demanding extra from McLaren as they “need to struggle for wins”.
The Briton was left fifth on the grid for the 62-lap race on the streets of Marina Bay, a place he retained by the opening part as he carefully adopted Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari.
Norris made a mid-race pit cease for recent tyres, leaping Antonelli and pressuring Hamilton for the ultimate step on the rostrum because the Ferrari driver was on worn comfortable tyres.
Having didn’t overtake Hamilton at Flip 1, Norris misplaced a place to Antonelli earlier than finally getting the higher of Hamilton to complete fourth.
“I can have a look at it in two methods,” stated Norris. “One, it is not a nasty outcome for us. I feel P4 is pretty much as good as we have been going to get.
“I might have carried out a greater job to struggle extra for the P3, carried out a greater job combating in opposition to Lewis and positioning my automotive a bit higher and never going off and permitting Kimi to return by. In any other case, a P4 is the perfect we might obtain at present. I am joyful we managed to try this however we would like greater than what we had at present.”
Norris completed 16 seconds adrift of the rostrum however was 40s behind race winner Max Verstappen, with McLaren‘s kind from the summer season, the place Norris claimed two victories, having been misplaced.
“Crimson Bull appear to be the group to beat and have clearly improved the automotive loads over the previous couple of weeks, and we have simply slipped to the again of the highest 4,” stated Norris.
“We are the fourth quickest group, which implies that if we completed P4 at present we nonetheless did job and overachieved for example by way of automotive outcome.
“I am not proud of a P4, I desire a podium and we need to struggle for wins. We have to hold making an attempt to enhance and bringing upgrades to make the automotive higher.”
Workforce mate Oscar Piastri was capable of salvage P5 on the chequered flag, having overtaken Hamilton on the penultimate lap, with the Australian having to make an unscheduled cease mid-race with a sluggish puncture.
“It felt fairly cheap I might say. I feel we simply did not fairly have sufficient tempo,” stated Piastri.
“We could not go along with Max and Charles [Leclerc], I feel Kimi was a little bit bit faster than us as effectively. There wasn’t actually an excessive amount of we might do apart from the place we ended up.”
