“Consistency is one of the main things,” Lando Norris sets his objectives for the 2022 season
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The McLaren driver and one of the most popular faces of F1, Lando Norris, singles out his objective for the 2022 season. The driver will be out on the hunt for his first win this season, only this time he’ll be learning from his mistakes made in the previous season.
Throughout the season, the driver struggled with inconsistency, and that’s what he is planning to improve. He said, “What do I want to learn from myself and extract from myself to do a better job than last season? From the outside, the more basic things are really just consistency.”
The driver pretty much stayed in the top 10 first half of the season but failed to stay in a single-digit position in the latter half. In 2021 the driver finished P6 in the drivers’ championship, falling just behind Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi.
The highlight for Lando’s 2021 season was not his P2 finish in Italy, but the tumultuous Russian GP, when he made a blunderous call during the final laps of the race as the rain started to pour down. The call cost him his first win of the season.
Lando Norris’ expectations ahead of the 2022 season
Lando Norris expects to be in Q3 on as many weekends as possible. He said, as quoted by the GP Fans, “Just making sure I’m in Q3 at every opportunity I have to be in Q3, or Q2, and just being there when it counts which I think I started off doing very well last season. That is why we were so strong at the end of the season. It was that first half from myself and the team, of course, it was extremely strong and we made the most of every opportunity we had.”
Addressing the problem and learnings from the last season, Lando said, “I took a very good step from two years ago to last season and to not have these little mistakes that were very costly, let’s say the one with the Ferrari and Carlos [Sainz] in Brazil.”
“Obviously, the last two races [in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi] were punctures but there were just a couple of things along the way which led me to not scoring points maybe when I should have done and it was maybe only on two occasions or so. But a few when maybe I was eighth and I should have finished sixth or fifth, so consistency,” concluded Lando Norris.
The young Briton looked sharp in the Barcelona round of pre-season testing. He topped the timesheet on day 1 and is ready for the Bahrain testing and GP in McLaren’s new MCL36.
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