Norris confident McLaren can fight for win after positive Friday

Lando Norris expressed his delight about McLaren’s impressive pace on Friday, which saw the Brit top the timing sheets in FP2 and vowed to stay there throughout the whole weekend.

The 24-year-old edged Max Verstappen, who is firm favorite for the win, and may well be the Dutchman’s biggest threat going into Sunday’s race.

“But a good day for us. We sacrificed quite a bit of FP1 to do a lot of aero running so we were a little bit behind on kind of learning and trying and testing some things, but valuable stuff for the future. I think to end up how we did today was encouraging and makes us look forward to tomorrow.” Norris said.

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“It’s going to be very tight between many people… You have the Williams there, Alpine are there, Alpha Tauris are there, so it’s just going to be a scrap, a lot of people fighting for the top spot.”