Lando Norris laughed at how bad Max Verstappen’s car was in F1 Singapore GP qualifying
The McLaren driver finished second behind Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz on a weekend Red Bull were unexpectedly off the pace a🎐s they saw their unbeaten 🉐streak in 2023 come to an end.
Red Bull had won all 14 races this year prior to Singapore but 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez were both dumped out of Q2 in what was a horrible qua🦹lifying session.
Despite their performance struggles, Verstappe𒐪n managed to salvage fifth in Sunday’s race, while Perez recover🌠ed to eighth.
Speaking in the post-race press conference, Norris r꧂evealed he and Verstappen had shared a♌ laugh about Red Bull’s woes after qualifying.
“I don’t know what they struggled with but when I watched his [Verಌstappen’s] onboard yesterday I kind of laughed because I've never seen a car that bad before,” Norris said.
“M⛄ax also laughed about i✃t. We'll see next weekend, I think they'll be back at the top.”
Norris argued the season would have 🔥been much more exciting without Red Bull’s dominance.
“If Red Bull ꩵweren’t here I’d have had two race wins already,” he added.
“I think there's always been great battles for sometimes that best of the rest pack. Now the best of the rest is, I wouldn't say it's j✤ust us, I don’t Aston Martin are that far behind.
“They were at the beginning of the season very close ⭕but have dropped off. AlphaTauri were very ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚquick this weekend, just didn’t put it together when they needed to. So I think that’s great.
"Often if you didn't have the best team there - the best team always seems to dominate and take away the show from th♕e rest 🧔of it.
"But if you took away Mercedes a few years ago and you take away Red Bull now, the battles for the rest of the positions ꦫhave been incredible and many different winners every race or every season.
“And even for us this year, if we could compete a bit more agai🌳nst Red Bull🔜, Mercedes would have won, Ferrari would have won. We potentially could have won in Silverstone and Budapest.
“So yeah, Iꦇ have dreamed a litt𝓡le bit but I'm sure they are going to be back on back on track next weekend.”
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