F1 Norris Title, Stella Believes. And Then Jokes: “Lando Wanted to Keep Us Awake”

F1 Drivers’ Title: Can It Be Done?

It is not so much for the ten points recovered by Lando Norris in the last two races, but for the performances of a McLaren that in the Singapore GP until a couple of months ago. Standings aside, the peremptory way in which the 24-year-old Englishman – who however is still 52 points behind, not a small number considering that there are (only?) 6 GPs to go – has crushed the competition can only give confidence to the Woking team in view of the next stages. To the point that, perhaps for the first time, even the team principal Andrea Star he spoke explicitly of “Open World Cup” demonstrating that he believes in Papaya’s chances for the drivers’ title as well as the constructors’ title.

McLaren, Stella speaks

“Lando dominated – the former Ferrari engineer told the microphones of Sky UK – and we hope to have more days like this in the next six races. A fully deserved victory, as he was very fast all weekend. Yesterday, in qualifying, he was a bit cautious in his lap in Q3 and everyone in the pits thought that, if he had really pushed 100%, he would have been even faster. But everything fell into place this weekend and we cannot think that it will be easy in the races to come. Of course, it is promising, as is promising that Oscar managed to find a way to pass the two Mercedes and get back on the podium. We have collected many points for the championship and the battle for the drivers’ title is open”.

Norris’s mistakes in Singapore

There was also a comment on Norris’s small errors, as he touched the wall twice without suffering any major damage: “Zak and I thought that maybe Lando wanted to see if we were awake at the wall. But we didn’t need it, we were absolutely awake! Jokes aside, these circuits are always difficult and demonstrate how a driver must always be completely focused and in full control of the tires, because a small lockup can happen at any moment. Luckily there were no consequences, except for a few shivers. Then, however, Lando immediately managed to get back into the rhythm”.