Lando Norris’ gutted reaction which proves he’s a genuine F1 title contender

"I’m frust💧rated because I didn’t just lose a race to someone. I lost it to Max"

Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren in parc ferme. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, Spanish Grand Prix, Barcelona, Spain, Race
Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren in parc ferme. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, Spanish Grand…

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris gave a gutted reaction to missing victory at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix which is proof of his growth into a title conten🥃der.

The McLaren driv꧑er was on pole position but watched on as Red Bull’s Max Verstappen sealed another 🐼victory.

I♊t extends Verstappen’s lead at the top of the standings to 69 points clear of second-placed Norris.

Norris, who was visibly disappointed, was told afterwards of the encouragement to see himself as th♓e main challenger to the champion.

“But further b𝐆eh☂ind first,” he replied to Sky Sports.

“I don’t care what position it is. It’s the gap to firs൩t that I care 🎀about!

“That is bigger today. I’m frustrated because I didn’t just lose a race to someone. I lost it to Max and he’s the leader of the champi♚onship.”

No🌟rris was asked if he believes the McLaren was the quicker car in Barcelona, thereby giving him hope of race victories in the coming weeks.

“Today, yes. Yesterday, no,” he answered. “Today we w🍌ere the quickest car, fact!

“The team deser🌳ves it. From start to finish we were the quickest.

“The overtaking, ༺the following, the dirty air… that cost me the win today.

“I didn’t do a good enough job. As sim𒊎ple as that.”

Norris was bluntly asked if he has the machinery𝕴 to win the F1 championship.

He said: “If it’s like this every weekend? ✱I need something more.

“I need Max to not finish second, or do as good as he’s doing 🍃at the minute.

“He’s doing a good job. I can’t fault him.

“We hav🙈e what we need. I have꧃ what I need. The team has what they need.

“As a team, we have a good car🐠. We still need to improve on some things. I’m confident that we can.

“Today, we had the opportunity to win.

“Whether or not we had the best package? Or we 💟didn’t? Today we should have won the race but we didn’t.

“Those are opportunit⛄ies that we can’t miss out on.”

Lando Norris analyses George Russell battle

Pole-sitter Norris and Verstappen were both overtaken brilliantly by Georg🐻e Rusᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsell as the grand prix began.

Norris reacted: “It wasn’t li💮ke it was a bad start. It was two metres.

“Max just g𝓰ot there. I couldn’t cover him. And🍰 that was it.

“Frꦉಌom George’s side? George had such good slipstream.

“The cars are getting more and more dꩲraggy, in some ways, beca♛use there is more and more downforce, in an efficient way.

“George’s slipstream passed both of us!

“Even if you took me out o♈f it, George still would have got past Max. That’s☂ the crazy part of it all.

“I did whಌat I could. It was🤡n’t the best start. I didn’t think it was a bad start.

𒁃“Nowadays, when it’s so close, one or two metres generally makes a differencꩵe.

“Whether you can win a race, like today, or I don’t win a ra🌼ce.

“A shame that such a small margin cost us.

“It was a good race apart from that. From Turn 2 onwards it 🌳was pretty much perfect🔴.

I can’t complain but I lost it in the beginning.”

Norris, on new soft 🔥tyres, was not able to swiftly reclaim position on Russell, on used so💖fts.

He explained why: “All the dirty air. The first three laps of a stint,♋ you can. Beജcause the tyres are so good.

“Th🌸e beginning of the stint, I was good. I could. That was Max’s opportunity to get past George, and he did.

“After, the tyres just get so hot. You just can’t do different lines. You can’t do out of 🌸the dirty air and cut back.

“There was nothing else I could have done.

It was as simple as everyone falling intoꦕ line, a little b𓄧it. Then towards the end of the stint, you have to do different things.

“It’s complicated because I’m not going to push so hard to pass🍎 h✤im that I ruin my own race by over-pushing.

“I’ve got to think of the bigger pictuꦰre, at the same time.

“What we did today 🏅was exactly what we needed to do.”

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