Lando Norris completed fourth on the highway on the Formulation 1 Singapore Grand Prix however slammed the MCL40 for not being “fast sufficient” and “unattainable” to drive.
After back-to-back race wins both facet of the summer time break, McLaren and Norris have seemingly dropped again once more to the main pack.
On the Marina Bay Avenue Circuit this weekend, the Briton by no means actually had the tempo to combat the likes of Max Verstappen and the Ferraris.
Norris took the chequered flag, after 62 laps on the scorching tarmac of the streets of Singapore, in fourth – a whopping 40 seconds off the race-winner Verstappen.
Looking forward to upcoming races at Austin and Mexico, Norris believes the Woking-based group are a “great distance off” the tempo to anticipate any probability of success.
“The automotive will not be fast sufficient and it’s too troublesome to drive. We’re a great distance off,” he advised media together with Motorsport Week.
He revealed simply how troublesome it has been to drive the MCL40 off late, an expertise he revealed was like driving “on a knife edge on each single nook.”
“You’ve simply received to drive it inside an actual p.c and it’s a must to drive the automotive in each single manner. You possibly can’t let the automotive do any work,” he added.
“You possibly can’t simply let the entrance do the work or the rear do the work. You need to drive the entrance. You’ve received to drive the rear.”
Lando Norris: F1 success “unattainable” in 2026 for McLaren
Norris lay into how the MCL40 has been treating him thus far within the second half of the 2026 season.
The reigning F1 World Champion expressed his anguish that nothing he can do within the cockpit will change the truth that the automotive is simply not “fast sufficient”.
“You’ve received to drive it in a manner that takes a lot focus and a lot potential,” Norris defined.
“It’s simply so lengthy and mentally draining due to how exhausting it’s a must to work behind the wheel.
“So it’s simply too troublesome and it makes it unattainable to place laps collectively in qualifying which simply present how good of a job we have been capable of do once we have been getting on pole and issues like that and the way rewarding that felt.
“However with it not being fast sufficient now it’s simply it’s too troublesome and you may’t do something magical since you’re merely not fast sufficient.
“You need to drive the automotive and you may’t let the automotive do any work as a result of it doesn’t do it by itself and that’s not what you need from a automotive in any respect.”
Norris sits sixth within the drivers’ standings heading into the race weekend on the Circuit of the Americas.
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