BOLOGNA, 16 MAY – “I celebrated adequately for the occasion of course, but now it’s another weekend so I have to make sure I’m prepared and ready” to “hopefully try to replicate something similar”. Lando Norris said it at the press conference ahead of the Imola GP: the British McLaren driver is the fresh winner of the Miami GP, the first of his career. Now we turn the page. “Imola is generally one of the most successful tracks for the team and for me as a driver, I think we have definitely taken a step forward, from what I know the other teams have also taken a step forward.” And on position in the group, according to Norris, McLaren is “still third”. Thinking back to the victory in Miami, Norris underlines: “I was lucky in the race I won, but I don’t think it was a lucky race. The safety cars are an important element, a race is also planned with the safety car in mind. But not I was in front from the start, so the next objective is to stay in front from the start without counting on the help of the safety car to win.” However, “we were in Miami, now we are in Imola, maybe we can find ourselves being the best team again and instead we can be too far from Redbull and Ferrari and not fight for the podium”. In any case, the atmosphere in the team is different. “The team has improved in every area, there has been a huge effort. Not just in making the car faster,” Norris points out. There has been “a big difference since Andrea (Stella, ed.) arrived here and took a step forward. He is someone who understands people”. (HANDLE).
