It's not a brilliant season for the McLaren. The Woking stables he is in quite trouble with a car that both Norris and Ricciardo in particular struggle to manage.
How many problems
The difficulties on the MCL36 are quite evident. Norris continues every weekend to try to grab the points zone, to keep up with the challenge with Alpine for fourth place. It must be said, however, that whoever is most in difficulty is undoubtedly Ricciardo. The Australian rider has never found feeling this year and the results are undoubtedly in sight. The choice of McLaren indeed it was evident: Via Ricciardo, a year in advance, and in Oscar Piastres to try to raise the bar again during the next season.
Norris: "The car doesn't suit my style"
The main objective is undoubtedly to review the car. The first to admit it is in fact Lando Norris which, in an interview during the podcast Beyond the Grid, he has declared.
“They often say that Ricciardo doesn't suit McLaren while I do and that the car was designed around me, but there's nothing more false. Not that I hate driving it, but there MCL36 is not at all suited to my riding style. At the beginning of the year I had to fight a lot, it is I who have adapted to the car. It's certainly not the single-seater I would ask for if I had to express myself best according to my characteristics. It's me who has to adapt, the team helps me, they follow me, but it's not like they have the magic wand to fulfill my wishes. Paradoxically, it is a situation similar to when I made my debut in F1 in 2019. When I renewed, I knew that I would have difficulties in 2022 and that perhaps I would not even win in 2023".
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