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At the Mexican Grand Prix, Lando Norris managed to overtake his team-mate Oscar Piastri in the championship standings. Now he reveals when the turnaround started.
Lando Norris has been trailing his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in the 2025 championship standings for most of the year.
However, after his dominant win at the Mexican Grand Prix, he now leads the championship. Now he reveals the turnaround started after intra-team talks with McLaren.
“I feel better with the car today, everything’s about how I feel with the car,” Norris told Sky Sports F1.
“Last year, I felt very good with the car, I could perform better. This year I’ve struggled to get to grips with it. It’s been incredibly quick, but it’s clearly still difficult to drive.
“But when you get in that sweet spot, you can make it work, and it’s still something that over the last few weekends I’ve struggled with, even in Singapore.
“We had our debrief and we sat down for half an hour, and [I was] like: ‘Guys, this is exactly the car I don’t want. This is the reason why we can’t win more races, why we’re not gonna win in the future, is if we keep having a car that doesn’t give me what I need.’
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“This weekend [in Mexico], I just had a little bit more [of] what I need, and I can perform how I did this weekend. It’s as simple as that.”
Norris, however, admits he did question whether he was the issue, earlier in the season.
“At times at the beginning of the year, I certainly did, because I never want to blame my car.
“And certainly when the car was winning and Oscar was winning, the last thing I ever could do is use the excuse that my car is not good enough.
“But I wasn’t getting up to grips and wasn’t finding a way to make it work, and I’m finding a better way to make it work now.
“It’s as simple as that,” the Briton concluded.
