Lando Norris feels he was “screwed” by a sudden McLaren issue affecting his battery deployment in Miami Grand Prix qualifying.<\/p>\n
After a dominant Sprint pole and victory, Norris headed into grand prix qualifying as the favourite to land pole, but a scrappy session from both driver and team meant he could only qualify in fourth place.<\/p>\n
This is behind Kimi Antonelli, Max Verstappen, and Charles Leclerc, with team-mate Oscar Piastri faring even worse down in seventh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Recalling just what had gone wrong on Saturday afternoon, the reigning champion pinpointed a moment in Q3 where he felt he was “screwed” as he also detailed how outside factors had derailed McLaren.<\/p>\n
“We certainly had more issues with deployment and things like that, and I started my final lap with just less deployment,” Norris told media, including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
“For some reason, it just didn’t go to the full pack, so I was screwed from the off.<\/p>\n
“It is definitely not as clean a run from ourselves, and we need to understand why, but I think the temperature is a little bit hotter, and the wind was a little bit different, the tarmac is being rubbered in a lot more by all the categories and Porsches and certain lines I could do [on Friday], I couldn’t do on [Saturday].<\/p>\n
“It is a lot of little things, it is not like we’re miles off, we still think it is two-tenths [to Mercedes], so it is not like it is night and day, it is more that the others improved and maybe we struggled a bit more.<\/p>\n
“I think we still did a good job, I think the others just did a really bad job [in Sprint Qualifying], and did the job they should have done [in grand prix qualifying], so not too many complaints.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was certainly a bit trickier with the car, with the wind and the temperatures, and I struggled a bit more, but not because we changed anything, it’s just that the conditions were a little bit different and the others did the job they were supposed to, and we are where we deserve to be, to be honest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris feels he was “screwed” by a sudden McLaren issue affecting his battery deployment in Miami Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642662,"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":["post-646933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646933","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=646933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}