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"why? just hard work from my engineers and from myself to improve me as a driver" 👏🏻👏🏻 🗣️: friday night did you think you had the car to win the race? and do you have an explanation of the difference of pace between you and oscar? lando: "no, i didn't think so. especially after fp1, i didn't. actually, andrea wanted to make a bet with me because i was pretty disappointed with the pace and how the car was handling in fp1. it got a bit better in fp2, but still the ferraris were just on another level. and i really didn't expect to get as close as we did in quali. but the wind changed from friday to saturday, and the saturday wind really suited our car a lot more. we had a lot more confidence in driving the car, so i could push more. and then i certainly felt like i could be on pole yesterday, and i felt like i could win a race today. i think today the race pace was much better than i was expecting. the degradation was much better than i was expecting too. but it was probably one of my best performances personally in terms of driving the car. the fact i can keep up with oscar on this kind of track, where it's impossible to follow, impossible to overtake, i was within eight tenths or something for 40 laps almost. the fact i could do this is what gave me confidence that i would win the race no matter what, whether he boxed early or late or whatever. the pace advantage i had was huge today. but i don't know why. the cars are identical. and i've just been feeling very, very strong lately. i've worked on many areas from last year. i feel much more confident lately with how to extract performance. and i worked a lot with my engineers to understand this car, because it's certainly not an easy car to understand and figure out on how to drive on the limit consistently. so why? just hard work from my engineers and from myself to improve me as a driver and improve my driving. and that is the answer"

very well said by lando 👏🏻 🗣️: in your opinion, who has delivered the best performance in the first half, considering the opportunities and machinery each driver has had? lando: "i think we should probably all just say ourselves. i feel like you can't really compare these things. you can't really compare teams against teams. i think you have to say kimi as a complete- they have a great car and he's done an incredible job. he's been convincingly beating his teammate every single weekend. so when you're talking about a championship, you have to give credit to kimi. but when i have a good car like today, i feel like no one's going to beat me. so yeah, we'll probably all say each other [ourselves], but it just depends on how good the car is and things like that. i think you have in front of you three of the best drivers in formula 1. there are still plenty of others, but it's impossible to really compare these things. everyone sat here is doing an incredible job and probably getting the most out of their car. that's all you can really ask for.”

Honestly, McLaren really need to re-evaluate their strategy. If one car is clearly slower and backing up both cars to the pack, the wisest thing to do is SWAP. Ferrari has swapped when one driver is faster and it makes sense. Mcl make things unnecessarily & overly complicated.

"from a stategic pov, were there some frustrations on your side of the garage today?" lando: "i mean, i just want to win the race. there's certain rules we have as a team and we can't harm each other's race by being overly aggressive and wanting to win. but i want to win and i certainly had much, much better pace than him. we had a much better chance of winning the race, let's say. so when i was stuck behind oscar, max was four seconds behind, and at that point, he's still a threat. ahead, there's no threat and we have a lot more of a guarantee that we'll win as a team anyway. so i wanted to box and undercut, because my pace would have been so good, i could have pulled away the whole pit stop window, i think on him and boxed again if i needed to. or i get him to box early, and i think we're on the fine line between, boxing too early and harming both of our races. so that was just the best interest for the team, which they rightly have to say back against me, but i want to do whatever i can to try and win a race, of course"

"The team have put so much work in to make a car that can finally win again. It’s nice to be able to do it for them."

Lando Norris in Hungary since last 4 years 2023 : P2 2024 : P2 + (pole) 2025 : P1 2026 : P1 + (pole) Call it HungaNORing circuit

MCLAREN TEAM.

POST WIN CELEBRATIONS 🧡

lando with his baby

"can you the pressure on kimi in the second half?" lando: "how many points behind am i? 98?!!!! he should feel the pressure, that’s for sure!that’ll be done in like two races.. or ten" PLS 😭😭😭

“the frustration on the radio I understand in the moment, but when he says things … you got to remember he had the preferred strategy … I don’t think it’s fair to put that on the team … I don’t think the team did him wrong.” FULL QUOTE BELOW

Love how people are ignoring Piastri getting the preferred strategy lol he was just slow and it costed him today. Norris had the pace to overcut him TWICE today there's genuinely no excuses man

i’m actually gonna cry

"today was probably one of my best races i've done. of course maybe not lap one but the rest of it was really good" 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

„today was probably the best race i've ever done in my life” it’s like music to my ears

trophy kiss ❤️

DRIVE OF A WORLD CHAMPION 🦾

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Lando immediately lapped 1 second a lap faster after being let go by Oscar and maintained that consistently until the pit. Once he pit, he was absolutely flying. Way too much pace today. MCL needs to re-evaluate when they apply these equal treatments. #F1

TROPHY LIFT ❤️