Lando Norris believes that McLaren have made progress on their 'big weakness'

Lando Norris has joined McLaren for his debut Formula 1 season. Last year wasn't McLaren's best in terms of performance but it seems that they are starting to fix the issues that they had. 

“Some of the areas where he had a big weakness we’ve strengthened,” Norris explained to Crash.net. 

“I’m not saying it is perfect at all as they are still weaknesses but overall I think we have a better package to begin the season with.

“Where we struggled last year, we’ve done better to move forward. In those things the biggest problems we’ve had we’ve been able to move forward in some areas which is the main thing.”

McLaren have had some solid sessions during winter testing which could suggest a strong season. However, it is always hard to tell how competitive cars will actually be at this stage. 

“Throughout the race runs and qualifying runs I am making changes without asking or getting recommendations for changes from the engineers,” Norris said.

“But if I haven’t done something that they can see in the data then they recommend it or tell me to do it. 

"From that side of things, it comes with experience from situations in terms of tyres. That is something from last week to now I have got much better at. I have understood that a lot more. 

“It takes a lot of time and understanding to be able to maximise this sort of stuff but I think I am at a point where I know when to do it and how it effects it but there are still more things for me to learn to utilise it at full potential.”