“The British believes that the case in the conditions of qualification and configuration of the route”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
The expectation of the team for early championship at the Cup of Designers with a new record for seven races before the season was scattered in Baku: Norris finished only the seventh, and the leader of the stand of Oscar Pastri departed from the highway already in the first round after the crash in qualification. Instead, Max Ferstappen with Red Bull won the second victory, reducing the lag from Australian to 69 points (minus 40 of the Grand Prix of the Netherlands).
In the two previous races (in Italy and Azerbaijan), McLaren failed to impose Red Bull again. As before in Las Vegas-2024, the team experienced difficulties on high-level tracks.
Summarizing the weekend, Norris acknowledged that the car configuration for such trails remains a weak place:
“I do not think that we had big problems. We were still good at a clean pace. We were fast in all practices. The qualification played the role of the condition – a little rain, getting on the route first – all this was in a difficult weekend. If I started the second, I would finish the second. But Red Bull was unattainable for us. We still suffer on low pressing routes. ”
Norris stressed that despite some problems, the team retains confidence:
“We had a fantastic season, do not understand the wrong. But there are things that are not good enough and you need to work on them. We are fast, we just can’t repeat it as often as it is necessary – and as it does Red Bull. ”
