Lando Norris has acknowledged that missing out on lap time during free practice this year has a knock-on effect for the remainder of the weekend.<\/p>\n
The F1 cars this year have been built under a fresh set of technical regulations with major changes made to both the aerodynamics and power units.<\/p>\n
The drivers have been using the opening rounds to learn about the cars as they attempt to get up to speed.<\/p>\n
However, Norris has faced a variety of issues in practice outings this year – including last time out in Japan when his on-track outings were limited.<\/p>\n
When asked by media including RacingNews365 if missing practice this year has a more detrimental effect compared to previous eras, Norris said: \u201cYeah, 100%, a lot more.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s obviously still a new car, and it’s a new track where the tarmac is a lot grippier here.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s new tarmac as well. It’s a much quicker track, so you have to drive the car quite differently to how we’ve driven the last few [years].\u201d<\/p>\n
At Suzuka, mistakes were frequently spotted as the drivers adjusted to the behaviour of the newly constructed challengers, a sight that was mirrored in Australia and China.<\/p>\n
Norris insisted the increase in the battery output is also impacting how the team’s are setting up their cars.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve seen how many mistakes people have been making, into Spoon and things with the rear, it’s just not easy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo certainly now it costs more than before, not just as a driver, but also to understand how the power unit works, to get the battery in the right way.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you have to lift more in places, what you have to then adjust with the set-up, because you have to lift more.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of little things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has acknowledged that missing out on lap time during free practice this year has a knock-on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-595320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}