Norris and his concerned puddle against the press: “Am I? Is this the car? There’s something that doesn’t fit, I wish I had an answer”

When you have a problem, the first thing is to recognize it. And the next step is to understand this, find solutions and apply them. Lando Norris is in the second phase of a long process. English has the best grid car in his hands but many mistakes.

In China he saw how his partner was Piastri He achieved the pole and won a career, paying better than he was. In SuzukaHe didn’t take advantage of his best car and saw how he won Max in a car but, along Piastri Behind the better career rhythm. And to Bahrain This is the maximum of disasters for Landau By a long, lengthy list of mistakes: in classification, breaking the Hamilton, Leclerc And finally, when Russell was unable to overcome the latter despite having a better rubber. A catastrophe

Norris that came 6, had a car to be th -2 after his partner Piastri. That should be its lowest goal. But it was third and could not hide his failure in the press room, next to his partner, with the same car achieved the pole and won a career without stopping.

Piastri acknowledged that McLaren is the best current car and says otherwise “will not be fair.” And he said he was comfortable with orange car, even though it was a car that sometimes provides some scares to react. And Australia did not waste that orange rocket, The car everyone wants. The state of the Melbourne pilot, 24, is different from a -dejected Norriswho recognized his mistakes and what At FIA’s official press conference opened before all with a mirror telling a lot about how it lost: She couldn’t understand why she failed to squeeze her car like last year and where she was uncomfortable with the best car. You do not doubt the level of your pilot and what you can do, but you find no answers. And that is a bad campaign symptom that has begun.

“If I have an answer I will tell you”

“What can you do in the short time to comment a little better in the car?” They asked him at a press conference in Bahrein after the third end. There his long and concerned reflection began.

“I hope I know it. I want to know the answer. I have no answer, sincerely. Even if I have it, I will share it with you. But I don’t know”He commented to start his explanation.

“In my opinion, when you are an athlete, when you are a pilot, whatever, you know if things fit, when you feel safe, when you are comfortable. I’m sure I have everything I need and I have a need. I have no doubt that I am good enough and all those things. But there’s something that doesn’t fit me and the car. I can’t go around the past. Then, he knows every curve, everything happens in the car, how it happens. I felt above the car, “he explained.

“This year, I don’t feel more opposite (with the car). Even in AustraliaWinning a career or not (he achieved success), I am uncomfortable, I do not feel confident. The car is amazing and it helps me to get rid of many problems. But I am not close to the ability I have, what is painful, painful to say it“

On Saturday night he stayed with engineers

“It took me a long time to spend, even last night (Saturday, after the classification). Last night I stayed late to investigate everything and understand what it costs to cost me, what didn’t work. I was trying to find out what changed since last year until this year. Is it me? Is this something from the car?

“I trust me. I know I have what you have, but I have no confidence in the car. And when you don’t trust the car, to find out what the limit is, what to do at low speeds, at high speeds, in any curve, I will not be as fast as I need to be. And especially if you are fighting the best in the world.

Do not fall into the spiral of negativity

After his difficult constipation, with an unusual transparency in a world like F1 where every pilot tries to hide his concerns not to show weakness before his rivals, ‘The Sun’ asks him at a press conference about the importance of “not falling into that spiral” and reminds himself of the talent he has.

Lando continued his explanation: “Yes. The thing is, I think it’s harder for me not to show any of these things. It’s a lot – when I do my interviews and whatever – most of them probably just get my frustration. Myself.

“I really want to win and it is a very difficult task to get it. When things don’t come out as much as I want to and put the leg, I feel so much frustrating myself. But during the interviews and I say my whole life, that I learned to hinder my own comments from my thoughts. Sometimes I sometimes lack a little confidence in myself, and I have made it a little better.

“And yes, sometimes I was too hard on myself, like Saturday. But now I’m back after a reparative dream, with modified energies, a new day and want to fight again, and I feel like I’m a new day.

“Someday I want to drive with my car and dance with him too, do you know? Like one who wants no more, sometimes it’s easier and sometimes it’s not.