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Another mishap nearly cost Norris in Zandvoort: 'Team misjudged it'
After much talk over the summer break about having issues with his race starts, from pole position, Lando Norris once again could not lead entering the second lap of the Grand Prix. After another poor start however, the British driver could recover and confidently win the second Grand Prix of his career. Norris analysed what went wrong at the start in Zandvoort.
"Not get wheelspin," the now two-time Grand Prix winner quickly pointed out following the Dutch GP. Even as Norris won the race by more than 20 seconds, both McLaren drivers had a bad start to the race and lost positions as a result in the Netherlands.
"Obviously [there is] not [a simple way to fix it] because otherwise I would have done better then. We know what to do, we know what's required to do a perfect start but we're talking about fine margins here. We both didn't get it right, it seems, like maybe there was more of an underlying issue or something. It wasn't how it's supposed to be or we've clearly misjudged something more than what others did," Norris explained what happened once the race got underway.
'Piastri also struggled'
According to Norris, his teammate, Oscar Piastri is better in terms of this starting skills, but the Australian also had a difficult start to the race. "Oscar's one of the best starters on the grid. I'm not as good as him but there or thereabouts. Not a bad starter but not as good as obviously what we need to be. Again it was a race which almost slipped away off the line but today was again different to every other thing that's happened so, kind of like I said before the weekend, we need to find a bit more consistently but we’ve worked on it. I’ve done better procedurally," the McLaren driver concluded.
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