Lando Norris has warned against McLaren relaxing despite th♉eir red-hot form up against Red Bull.

Norris won the F1 Singapore Grand Prix at ꧑a canter after qualifying on pole position, his third race victory of the year.

He has cut the🐼 deficit to 52 points behind Max Verstappen, who tops the drivers’ championship but is currently no match for Norris’ pace.

Norris reacted on Channel 4 to Verstappen’s 52-point lead: “Only? That’s still a lot of point⛄s, especially when Max is🍌 finishing second. It doesn’t go down too quickly.

“I feel🔜 like I’ve been performing well in the pa♔st couple of months.

“Different circumstances have not led to me having results like [in Singapore]. But I feel like I’ve ♍performed at this level in the past two, three, four weekends.

“I wish I could be closer in the championship. We’ve taken things on the chin, we move fo✅rward.

“I was quickest all weekend a🍬nd dominated the race, 💃it makes you feel good. It’s good motivation for the team.

“I am happy but we need to keep working hard because I’m sure Red Bull wil🔜l catch up. I want my races to be nice and easy!”

McLa💯ren have significantly overhauled Red Bull to top the constructors’ championship.

Thꦡe fas💦test car in F1 is undisputedly the McLaren at the moment, and they are the favourites to claim the constructors’ even if Verstappen is able to hold Norris at an arm’s length in the drivers’.

But the 💜gap of three weekends without a grand prix between Singapore and Austin will offer Red Bull a chance to reconsider their approach.

Norris admitte🍷d: “We are doing well, at the minute. I want to keep going! Screw the bꩵreak, let’s go straight to Austin.

“The team are doing an amazing job but we’re up against🍌 Red Bull.

“People keep writing them off quickly and t🙈oo eas⛦ily.

“When 𒁃you’re up against Red Bulꦍl, you’re up against Max. They have dominated the sport for the past several years.

“They are tough competition.

“I feel like people relax too much. 💛When you’ve got Max and Red Bull behind you, pushing? They will do whatever they can.”

Norris was so supreme in Singapore that briefly kissing the barrier on two oc🍰casions was his only hiccup.

“It was a very good race. A couple of times I gotಞ too close to the walls,” he said.

“The car was so quick in the first stint, and I was managing it so well, that I ꦜwantedꦦ to push and create a lovely gap.

“Maybe I was pushing too much.

“I was comfortable, the car was good, I wanted to keep openi✤ng the gap.

“I 𒈔wanted to open a pitstop window on Max, just in case I wanted to get the quickest lap at the end - wh💞ich I had, until Daniel stole it from me!

“After I had a couple of moments, I just peܫg𝔍ged it back and brought it home.”