Lando Norris feels fortunat📖e to have avoided more damage from his crash which brought a premat🅺ure end to his Friday running at Formula 1’s Tuscan Grand Prix.

The McLaren driver speared into the barriers between Turn 3 and Turn 4 after dipping his left-hand wheels onto the gravel during the qualifying simulation runs in second practi🏅ce at Mugello.

The impact ripped off Norris’s🐽 front wing but otherwise the Briton appeared to 🎃avoid picking up any major damage to his MCL35, though he was unable to complete any high-fuel runs as a result of his session-ending incident.

“It felt a lot worse in the car than what it looked like but I think there’s some damage to the steering and maybe the rear,” Norr♍is 𒉰said.

“Nothing major luckil𝐆y. I don’t think I damaged much to the floor or the wings, apart from the f𒐪ront wing. It’s not terrible, it could have been worse so I’m lucky.

“It was a small mistake from my side which was quite costly. It cost me all of the high-fu𒁏el running in P2 bu🗹t it is what it is and we will try to make up for it tomorrow.

“As much as I hate the fact there was gravel because of crashing and daꦿmaging𓂃 the car, it’s better like this being trickier,” he added.

“It’s more challenging and I think🏅 that’s what it should be like. Not ideal bꦗut it’s what happens sometimes.”

McLaren ended Fr🌸iday 13th and 14th in the FP2 order and were over 1.6s off the pace, something Norris admitted came as a bit of a surprise to the Woking outfit.

“It was not as good as what we were hoping for coming into the wꦅeekend,” he explain♔ed.

“We were maybe expecting just to start the weekend a little bꦫit stronger, I don’t think we’re bad or slow just the car has been quite tricky and we are maybe not as competitive as we were expecting.

“We have some work to do🐻 but if I put the laps together than I confident we can do a much better job.”