Norris: “We didn’t expect to be fighting for the victory. It’s a huge surprise”

McLaren always on the podium Very positive signals from McLaren at the end of the Miami Grand Prix, in particular from reigning world champion Lando Norris; after the success achieved in the Sprint race, ahead of his teammate Oscar Piastri, the British crossed the finish line in 2nd place in the Sunday race behind Antonelli, with the Woking team back on the podium with both its drivers thanks to Piastri’s third position, albeit favored in the final by Leclerc’s mistake. Surprising progress A weekend, the first after a long break, which turned out to be almost entirely a surprise for #1, at least according to Norris himself’s feelings. Never in the top-3 in the first three races of the world championship, the Englishman recognized the effectiveness of the package brought by the team to Miami, while admitting that he still has to recover from Mercedes, the team that currently leads the Constructors’ and Drivers’ classification with Andrea Kimi Antonelli. Norris’s words “I don’t think anyone expected us to win this weekend – he commented to Sky Sport – in Japan we were about a second slower in the race. The fact that we are now fighting for victory I think is a huge surprise. Maybe this track suits us better, and now we’re going to Canada, where the track for Mercedes is incredible, so we shouldn’t get too excited. We’ve made a lot of improvements, but we didn’t expect to be fighting with Mercedes, and that must make us very happy. We have to take the weekend as it comes. Today we could have done a better job and also fought for the victory, but we’ll see what we could do better next time.”

Automobile Magazine – F1 English News
2026-05-04 06:25:00