Lando Norris commented on the situation involving Mercedes engines and McLaren in Formula 1. The current champion stated that the performance difference is due to the start of the season.
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After the championship opener in Australia, where George Russell won and Kimi Antonelli crossed the finish line in second place, Andrea Stella admitted that for the first time he felt at a disadvantage as a customer of Mercedes, which supplies the engines for the British team.
In Shanghai, in an interview with GPblog, the British competitor stated that the exchange between the papaya team and Mercedes HPP has always been good and this gap in the first races is natural.
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“We always do this. We have been working very closely since then, and they helped us win the last championships together, you know, so it’s certainly not like this has never happened. It’s just the start of the season, there are many things to try to figure out and understand,” he explained.
“Certain things are not necessarily shared, because you always try to create your own advantages, but at the same time there are aspects that we need to figure out for ourselves,” he added.
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