‘That was taking the p***’ – Christian Horner shocked by Norris’s pace in Singapore

“At that time we’ve conceded the race on tempo. He touched the wall for the primary time after which touched it for the second time, however clearly received away with it.

“I truly assume Max drove a really robust race right this moment and that was what we had, which when you think about the place we had been a few weeks in the past, I believe we’ve got made some actual progress. Clearly we’ve received plenty of work to do earlier than Austin.”

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Horner provided his congratulations to Norris and McLaren for his or her success in Singapore, including: “They’d a really robust automobile this weekend and significantly on the primary stint they had been very fast.

“I believe on the exhausting tyre we seemed in higher form, however in fact the hole is means too huge by then, at a observe that anyway it’s very exhausting to overhaul [on].

“I believe when you roll again the clock to Friday, on Friday night time I believe when you’d have mentioned we’ll qualify on the entrance row and take second place, a major quantity forward of the remainder of the sector, I believe we’d have definitely taken that.