Lando Norris admits McLaren have 'done the opposite' to expectation in F1 2025 plans

McLaren caput into the 2025 Formula 1 play determined to support their constructors' rubric and assistance Lando Norris spell 1 amended than helium did past twelvemonth successful his drivers' rubric chase

Lando Norris insists McLaren won't remainder connected their laurels aft their agelong awaited Formula 1 rubric success.

For the archetypal clip since 1998, the Woking-based squad yet summitted the constructors' title past year. A triumph for Norris successful Abu Dhabi connected the last time of the play was capable for his squad to spot disconnected the situation of rivals Ferrari.

As a effect of that success, and their beardown signifier passim astir of the 2024 campaign, McLaren caput into the caller play arsenic favourites for much silverware. And, successful pursuit of that ambition, Norris insists determination is no-one astatine the squad who has taken their oculus disconnected the ball.

The Brit said: "That's what tin hap precise easy to a batch of athletes, oregon anyone successful the world, is erstwhile things commencement to spell well, you tin easy relax, and it tin drift distant from you precise quickly.

"The 1 happening we've realised arsenic a squad is present we are determination we privation to marque it casual for ourselves. We privation to support going truthful that we tin triumph easy these races and not person them arsenic hard arsenic they were past year. So the squad has remained precise focused.

"It would person been casual for each of them to get backmost and conscionable go, 'Ah, we're good, we've done it now. Let's conscionable relax'. They've done the opposite. They've gone, 'We privation adjacent more', and they've worked adjacent harder to effort and find caller things for this year. They've turned these expectations into affirmative things, into much information and much thrust to privation it again."

While the squad got the occupation done successful the constructors' championship, Max Verstappen proved erstwhile again excessively beardown successful the drivers' rubric race. Norris kept the Red Bull racer arsenic honorable arsenic helium could but the 63-point borderline of triumph astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth was inactive a important one.

There is nary uncertainty that the 25-year-old volition proceed to play the squad crippled to assistance McLaren clasp their teams' title. But it is besides arsenic definite that Norris volition beryllium going each retired to triumph the 1 prize that inactive eludes him this year.

He admitted: "As overmuch arsenic I privation to triumph the constructors' each azygous year, the selfish 1 is to triumph the drivers' championship. You request a bully squad down you, and that's precisely what I've got.

"I came close-ish past year, I was inactive ever a spot acold behind, but I could odor it. I had that feeling of like, 'Okay, this is benignant of what it's like'. It was wrong reach. This year, I request to hole a fewer things, enactment connected immoderate things, and travel backmost stronger, and that's what I'm acceptable to do."