McLaren give Norris the priority over Piastri: 'Small gain'
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- Corwin Kunst
Oscar Piastri has confirmed he is not expecting to race with the new McLaren front wing in Mexico, while Lando Norris will get the new part. In Austin, the McLaren driver also drove with the older configuration and he looks set to have to do so again at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
Lando Norris will drive with the new front wing as he tried to hunt down Max Verstappen in the F1 World Championship. When Piastri is asked whether the new front wing will be available to him in Mexico City, he answers negatively. "Not at the moment, I don't think. I don't know but either way it's a very, very small performance increase, so if I don't have it or if I do it's certainly not what's going to make or break my weekend."
"The only thing I'm missing from last week is the front wing. Again, all the changes we made were very, very small and minor things, so not having one of them is certainly not the end of the world."
McLaren in Mexico
In the United States, Piastri finished in fifth place. This weekend, he hopes to be on the podium again, and preferably the top step. "It's quite different in a lot of ways to Austin. Obviously the altitude and stuff like that makes it quite a different challenge, but hopefully it helps and suits us a little bit more. I don't think we necessarily expected Austin to be, a bit of an exaggeration, but not as competitive as we hoped. But it wasn't a complete surprise," he added.
This article has been created in collaboration with Matt Gretton