Lando Norris believes Racing Point’s approach of atte𒐪mpting to cop♛y Mercedes’ Formula 1 car design has made the midfield pecking order hard to judge heading into the 2020 season.

Racing Point’s RP20 concept has proven a controversial topic among its midfield rivals after it was inspired by Mercedes’ W10 contender🐠, with the Silverstone outfit’s latest F1 car closely resembling last year’s title-winning machine.

McLaren is aiming to build on securing fourth place in the 2019 constructors’ championship but Norris is unsure how the competitive order will now shape up after Racing Point ended each of the opening five d♑ays of winter testing inside the top four.

On Wednesday, Sergio Perez said the RP20 was the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:best car he has ever driven throughout his career. 

Asked if leading the midfield is🎉 a realistic target for McLaren, Norris replied: “I don’t know what the midfield is anymore, because there’s one pink car whi🅺ch is very fast.

“It’s difficult to know. The order wil🐼l be shaken up and changed around a bit. I’m hoping it will be not as spread out between the top teams and us. I’m hoping it’s all a bit more bunched up.

"Mercedes still look extremely good, as usual, Red Bull look very good, Ferrari don’t look as amazing as the✱y did last year, but you never know. Things can change. We need to keep our head down.

“I don’t want to comment too much♋,” he added. “It [the Racing Point] looks like a Mercedes for♚ sure.

“I don’t know what the idea and process is behind it and how everything has worked out so no point me saying anything which is incorrect, but they seem to have done a very good job, with whatever they ha🀅ve done.

"They are fast and I think they have set the pace for the midfield teams last year for just this pre-season testing, but it doesn’t mꦰean we will go to Australia and they are going to be amazing.

“We have work to do to t🌠ry and catch up to them up a bit, b🍌ut Australia is a very different story.”

Norris racked up 113 laps in his final pre-season testing appearance before teammate Carlos Sainz conc𝐆ludes McLaren’s winter programme on Friday.

“From my own side, I’m very happy,” Norris ex𝐆🍌plained.

“All the things I wanted to work on over the winter and had planne🌸d over the last week or two weeks, I think I made my own priority, I made good progress and I’m happy with what I did aꦗnd how much better I’m in those areas.

“Doesn’t mean I’m perfect, always room for improvement, 𝕴but I’m satisfied. As a team, we have done a 🌼good job.

“Still one day to go, but how everything has run and how smoothly we have𝔍 been operating, I think we are satisfied, but there are still plenty of 💙things to improve.”