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McLaren insists Norris title was by no means principal purpose, after Brazil setback
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McLaren insists Norris title was by no means principal purpose, after Brazil setback

By Miles Cooper November 5, 2024
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McLaren says that guiding Lando Norris to the drivers’ championship was by no means finally its principal goal – because it has all the time been extra centered on the constructors’ crown.

Norris had a golden alternative to shut down Max Verstappen’s factors benefit within the Brazilian Grand Prix, beginning on pole place along with his rival down in seventeenth on the grid.

But, a mix of a scarcity of tempo within the moist, driving errors, brake lock-up issues and a badly timed pink flag meant the Briton completed sixth – with Verstappen producing a sensational efficiency to win.

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That consequence has left him 62 factors adrift of Verstappen with solely three rounds remaining.

Whereas the Brazil consequence is a disappointment for Norris in private phrases, McLaren says it modifications nothing in its strategy, as a result of the group was solely ever actually eager about the constructors’ battle anyway.

Requested by Motorsport.com about how the Brazil consequence would impression the strategy to the ultimate races, and whether or not it will truly take some strain off Norris, McLaren group principal Andrea Stella stated: “By way of the constructors’ championship, I don’t assume it modifications something.

“It was all the time our precedence. Even when there was a name to be made to help one driver or the opposite, it was all the time secondary to maximising the constructors’ championship.”

McLaren insists Norris title was by no means principal purpose, after Brazil setback

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38

Photograph by: Lubomir Asenov / Motorsport Photos

Stella didn’t really feel that the potential of being in a title battle had a lot of an impression on Norris’s efficiency at Interlagos, as he felt each group and driver knew it was a bonus to be within the combat within the first place.

“On the subject of the drivers’ championship, I don’t assume for Lando there was any specific strain,” he stated.

“We have been having fun with this quest, regardless that generally from the surface it could come throughout like there may be an error right here or there possibly.

“It’s like once we locked the tyres with the automobile like we had [in Brazil] I’m not trying on the driver, I’m why the automobile retains locking the entrance tyres in situations like this. I don’t assume strain was a major issue in any respect.

“Mathematically we’re nonetheless within the [drivers’] championship, however I believe for Lando and for Oscar, we’ll go to the following races attempting to win the races.

“The final two venues needs to be fairly good. Vegas will likely be doubtlessly extra of a Ferrari observe, after which we’ll see. It’s all to play for, and the constructors’ championship stays and has all the time been our precedence.”

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Norris himself has all the time performed down ideas of the title, considering it was finally an extended shot to come back from to date again.

Requested how exhausting the Brazil consequence was to digest now that the title dream was all however over, he stated: “Fairly simple. I did all I might immediately. That is all. Max received the race. Good on him. Nicely accomplished, however it would not change something for me.”

Whereas Norris misplaced floor within the drivers’ championship in Brazil, McLaren managed to increase its constructors’ benefit over Ferrari by seven factors to 36 factors – which makes it more and more possible that the battle will go all the best way to the ultimate spherical in Abu Dhabi.

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