Over the last two seasons, ಞNorris has emerged as one of F1’🎃s top talents, consistently extracting the most from his machinery.

His performances ultimately made 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo look ordinary, with McLaren deciding to replace the Australian for F1 2023.

Hakkinen - who won the 1998 and 1999 F1 world titles - rates Norris among the very besꦰt on the grid, alongside Verstappen and Char꧃les Leclerc.

Speaking to Unibet International, he said: ༺“A very quick driver, he𒅌's achieved a lot, or rather he's shown convincing results consistently.

“He's super-talented, no question about it. He's on the same level as Leclerc, Verstappen and Sainz. He's on a very high lev🎉el speed-wise.”

Like in 2022, McLaren started this season💃 in abysmal fashion, failing to finish inside the top 10.

Norris finished well down the field due to a recurring technical issue, while on his F1 debut, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri was forced out of the race early on.

The Finn believes McLaren need “a couple m🗹ore years” to turn things around in terms of their performance.

“I don't think McLaren has very 🍷high expectations this year,” he added.

“They know their development department, and their ꧒sponsors and partners are world-class technology giants. McLaren has their support but the team knows they aren't quite there yet. The result need a couple more years.

“They are in it for the long run a🅠nd have good partners. Like I said, there might be s♉ome results this year but I think the true performance will be seen in a couple of years.”