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[CjC]

Norris is struggling today

He had damage in first two parts of quali, front break duct flew off. They fixed it for SQ3 and boom.

Btw so frustrating to end up P6 and P7 with these minimal gaps to P3.

Thanks, I didn’t know that, just following the times so didn’t have the full picture.
He seemed to be struggling in practice as well.
All good now- apart from being so close yet so far as you say

[FittingMechanics]

Norris is struggling today

He had damage in first two parts of quali, front break duct flew off. They fixed it for SQ3 and boom.

Btw so frustrating to end up P6 and P7 with these minimal gaps to P3.

Thanks, I didn’t know that, just following the times so didn’t have the full picture.
He seemed to be struggling in practice as well.
All good now- apart from being so close yet so far as you say

Yeah. If all what we are hearing is true this is quite good. Weaker spec engine, big upgrades coming, car looked bad in FP1, etc.

Lets have a good race and we'll see in the next races where we stand.

[SilviuAgo]

Norris is struggling today

He had damage in first two parts of quali, front break duct flew off. They fixed it for SQ3 and boom.

Btw so frustrating to end up P6 and P7 with these minimal gaps to P3.

Zak talked to the F1TV guys during the sprint quali and he once again mentioned new upgrades in following races, he is really hyping them up. Sounds like they expect a lot. Very encouraging if it works!

Could have been P3 and P4. McLaren is not so far away as expected. maybe this is also the reason Andrea and Zak are so confident that the upgrades coming will allow McLaren to fight for wins.