Lando Norris believes Ra🧔cing Point’s approach of attempting to copy Mercedes’ Formula 1 car design has made the midfield pecking order hard to judge heading into the 2020 season.

Racing Point’s RP20 concept has proven a controversial topic among its midfield rivals after it was inspired by Mercedes’ W10 contender, with the Silverston🍸e outfit’s latest F1 car closely resembling last year’s title-winning machine.

McLaren is aiming to build on securing fourth pla🉐ce in the 2019 constructors’ championship but Norris is unsure how the competitive order will now shape up after Racing Point ended each of the opening five days of winter testing inside the top four.

On Wednesday, Sergio Perez said the RP20 was the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:best car he has ever driven throughout his career. 

Asked if leading the midfield is a realis𒁃tic target for McLaren, Norris replied: “I don’t know what the midfield is anymore, because there’s one pink car which is very fast.

“It’s difficult to know. The order will be shaken up and changed ꦺaround a bit. I’m hoping it will be noꦯt as spread out between the top teams and us. I’m hoping it’s all a bit more bunched up.

"Mercedes still l🔴ook extremely good, as usual, Red Bull look꧙ very good, Ferrari don’t look as amazing as they did last year, but you never know. Things can change. We need to keep our head down.

“I don’t want to comment too m🦩uch,” he added. “It [the Racing Point] looks like a Mercedes for sure.

“I don’t know what the idea and process is behind it and how🔴 everything has worked out so no point me saying anything which is i𝔍ncorrect, but they seem to have done a very good job, with whatever they have done.

"They are fast and I think they have set the pace for the midfield teams last year for just🅘 this pre-season tﷺesting, but it doesn’t mean we will go to Australia and they are going to be amazing.

ꦏ“We have work to do to try and catch up to them up a bit, but Australia i♊s a very different story.”

Norris racked u๊p 113 laps in his final pre-season testing appearance before teammate Carlos Sainz concludes McLaren’s winter programme on Frida💞y.

“From my own ꦛside, 𝐆I’m very happy,” Norris explained.

“All the things I wanted to work on over the winter and had planned over the las🤪t week or two weeks, I think I ♏made my own priority, I made good progress and I’m happy with what I did and how much better I’m in those areas.

“Doesn’t mean I’m perf✃ect, always room for improvement, but I’m satisfied. As a team, we have done a good job.

“Still one day to go, ⛄b꧃ut how everything has run and how smoothly we have been operating, I think we are satisfied, but there are still plenty of things to improve.”