Lando Norris 🦩is expecting the return to the cockpit of his Formula 1 car to be a “big shock” to the body following a prolonged spell without racing. 

The Briton has not raced competitively sin🧔ce the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December and last drove his McLaren car during pre-season testing in February, before the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on the 2020 F1 season🐼 schedule. 

10 raꦡces have been postponed or cancelled due to the ongoing crisis, but F1 has revealed plans to finally get the season underway with a number of behind closed door races in Europe, beginning in Austria on July 5. 

Speaking in a live chat on the official F1 Instagram channel, Norris conceded there is no way t🉐o prepare the body for wha🍷t will come once he finally gets back behind the wheel later this year. 

“I’ve been focusing on the things I can focus on, which is my training, physically,” hꦐe explained.꧂ 

“I’m trying to keep that up from pre-season testing, especially because when you go back in🐈to driving, it's going to be a shock for the body.

“To be able to go from doing nothing - not even testing or driving an F3 car or any car of any sort - it's literally going from driving a road car, and I've not even done that that 🦄much, to jumping in to one of the fastest cars in the world, ꧃pulling x amount of G-forces around the corner. It's a big shock.

“The body changes and gets used to driving a car,” he added. “You can do all the training you want at home [with] the n🅠eck exercises, but the movement when you jump in a Formula 1 car, you can't replicate identically inꦐ training.

“I꧟t's a sไhock to everyone's body - you can be one of the fittest guys in Formula 1 or the world, but it's still tough on the human body.”

F1 chiefs are still hoping to stage a campaign consist♏ing of🦩 between 15 and 18 races despite the uncertain and developing nature of the COVID-19 situation.