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McLaren’s Lando Norris goes into detail on his British Grand Prix battle with Lewis Hamilton, and says it was “a lot of fun”.
In the final stages of the British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris were engaged in a battle for P2.
The young Briton ultimately managed to finish ahead of his more experienced countryman, in no small part due to his significantly improved McLaren.
“It was a lot of fun, Lewis was pushing for it!” Norris told Sky Sports F1.
“We were side by side for a lot of it, we were very close around the back.
“I chose a slightly lower downforce compared to what Oscar [Piastri] was on just because I thought come a racing situation being that little bit quicker on the straight might save me.
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“And when you see that little bit of speed I have on Lewis down the back straight, it saved me.
“I managed to keep P2 because of that. It’s little things that you maybe sometimes don’t know about which you’re very happy you made those decisions.
“We were just extremely quick in the high-speed [corners]. The car was on rails in the high-speed and we were so quick.
“I managed to gap Lewis in the high-speed every time and then the slow-speed corners would come and he’d be back on me.
“If we could just work on the slow-speed, we have a car that could easily fight for top 10, top 5 a lot more often,” Norris concluded.
