Difficult Friday for the McLaren on the circuit of Suzuka, where the English team wrote the most important pages of its history with the victory of various world titles, but also touched some of the lowest points in F1 (above all, Alonso’s radio team in 2015 in which he compared the engine of the Honda to that of a GP2 car). Today, in the first two sessions of free tests turns on a wet track only Lando Norris he managed to place his car in the top ten in PL1, however not going beyond 8th place.
In the second tests, the Englishman even slipped to 16th place. Although the results on paper are not necessarily indicative of what are the real potential of the MCL36, Norris indicated the major problems faced in this first part of the weekend, not hiding a certain optimism for qualifying: “Even though the conditions today were quite difficult – commented – the laps we did were useful. We are struggling a little for the pace, so we have some work to do overnight. However, it will be dry tomorrow and Suzuka will become a very different place, so we will work hard to prepare for PL3, as well as for qualifying and the race ”.
Still disappointments, however, for Daniel Ricciardo: the Australian ended up far from the top-10 in both sessions, closed, in order, in twelfth and seventeenth position. Even for him, however, the indications for the rest of the weekend remain positive: “It was fun to be back on this track – has explained – conditions were slippery, but it was a good time, I enjoyed it. In the morning we weren’t in bad shape most of the time. We only completed a few laps, but I felt relatively comfortable with the car. In the afternoon, I would say there was less pace, but it was really difficult with the tires. It is not known what others are doing and it is difficult to understand how things are. We probably have some rhythm to find, but tomorrow it looks like the track is dry and so it will be completely different again, and then we still don’t know what will happen on Sunday. I think the learning we have done is still useful and we will try to improve some things for tomorrow. In general, I am very happy to be back on track ”.
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