Lando Norris believes it is “obvious” where he needs to improve to challenge team-mate Oscar Piastri for the world championship after a string of difficult Saturdays.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After round nine of the season, Norris trails Piastri by 10 points, having won two races to the Australian’s five, with the title race increasingly looking like an all-McLaren affair in the first intra-team battle for the title since Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton in 2016.<\/p>\n
Although Norris has fared well in races so far, taking a worst finish of fourth in Saudi Arabia, finishing on the podium in the other eight, his struggles have been in qualifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He made an error in Bahrain which left him sixth on the grid, with Piastri on pole, whilst he crashed in Q3 in Saudi Arabia, leaving him 10th, both of which were races Piastri won, pulling out 22 points on the Briton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Piastri leads the qualifying head-to-heads for grands prix only 5-4, with an average difference between the pair of 0.095s across the nine events.<\/p>\n
However, it is an area Norris is determined to work at and improve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Honestly, I think it’s pretty obvious, I think it’s fairly simple,” Norris explained to media including RacingNews365<\/strong>, <\/strong>when asked where there was room for improvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I’ve made it clear where my struggles have been. The things I\u2019ve found a little more difficult, especially this season, compared to previous ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Saturdays have had a lot more ups and downs, my Sundays\u201495% of the races this season\u2014I\u2019ve been pretty happy with. Of course, there are still some races that haven\u2019t gone perfectly.\u00a0<\/p>\n “If I look back on Miami and things like that, if I could redo things, of course, I would do some things differently, but some things just go the way they do.\u00a0<\/p>\n “My Sundays, I have been very happy with. I\u2019m always very confident going into Sundays, and I\u2019ve been this whole season. So yeah, it\u2019s just tweaking little things, and that\u2019s more just the position that I start the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n “That\u2019s been the biggest thing. Like I said before, qualifying is the area I\u2019ve been working on the most. It\u2019s the one I\u2019m putting the most time and effort into because it\u2019s the one that allows me to win races or not.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris believes it is “obvious” where he needs to improve to challenge team-mate Oscar Piastri for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114646497571404123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}