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McLaren are targeting more than just downforce gains from the major upgrade they will begin to introduce for their MCL60 this weekend, says Lando Norris.
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One significant weakness of the car is its performance through long corners, which there are several of at the Red Bull Ring, the venue for this weekend’s race. Norris said the team needs to improve how its car behaves through corners like these, and adding more downforce isn’t the only change they must make.
“We struggle in corners,” Norris explained. “Long corners are definitely a lot worse for us, high-speed corners are the best. High-speed corners, we’re actually very competitive. In high-speed we’re, I would say, close to being one of the best on the track. But the opposite on the slow-speed corners in a way.
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“But it’s different things, it’s not just the fact it’s a long corner. It’s how you’re able to drive corners, how you’re able to release the brake, that we just don’t have. That’s just not good either. It’s not just that we’re missing 20 points of downforce on the front, 20 points downforce on the rear. It’s the actual handling, the characteristic of the car that we also need to fix in some ways.”
Some of the changes McLaren are looking to make address long-standing characteristics in their car’s handling, said Norris, who has been with the team since he arrived in F1 in 2019.
He also goes on to talk about problems in slow corners, and Saturday vs Sunday performance issues.
