Lando Norris claims he can’t help Daniel Ricciardo learn the McLaren much more than he already is.
This season, Norris has routinely outperformed his teammate. In the championship, he leads his teammate by 113 points to 50, and Ricciardo missed the cut for Q3 for the sixth time yesterday.
Norris stated that he had done all possible to help Ricciardo in adjusting to McLaren’s handling characteristics.
“I don’t know where else I can help, you know?” said Norris after qualifying yesterday. “I tell him what I’m feeling, he has all my data, he can see everything I’m doing, I describe things very well, I think, in the debriefs, in what I’m doing, so.
“I’m not going to lie, but it’s not up to me at the end of the day.”
McLaren is battling Ferrari for third place in the constructors’ standings, with a 15-point lead heading into the Hungarian Grand Prix. In the championship, Ricciardo behind both Ferrari drivers.
“Obviously I want him to do well because we need that for the championship,” said Norris. “And [if] we want to beat Ferrari, then he needs to do well.
“But there’s only so much I can do to help him. He’s still a different driver, in the end of the day and I drive differently. Every driver drives differently to everyone else in the world, and what he feels is different to me and what I feel is different to him.”
Norris will start sixth in today’s race, ahead of both Ferraris. He believes McLaren has a good chance of outscoring its main championship rival.
“Coming into it, I think we were expecting them to be very fast because they’ve improved their very high speed characteristics, like in Austria. And also they have a very stable rear in the slow speed and that’s what we’ve been struggling with all weekend, is this rear end in these last three corners in the last sector, a few corners in the middle sector.
“We were expecting more from them so I’m pretty happy to be ahead of one, obviously one of them made a mistake and was out quite early on, so a good chance for us to score some good points ahead of them tomorrow.”
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