'At a time when it should be more difficult to dominate, we've done it'

‘At a time when it should be more difficult to dominate, we’ve done it’

October 6, 2025

in Racing

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Lando Norris mentioned McLaren’s dominant constructors’ championship victory is much more exceptional as a result of Formulation 1’s guidelines are so restrictive.

The group clinched its second consecutive constructors’ championship within the Singapore Grand Prix final weekend.

“One other one is only a great point,” mentioned Norris. “One other constructors’ feels the identical as the primary as a result of to get the primary was fairly an achievement in the event you take a look at the place we have been simply three years in the past.”

Norris has been with the group since his F1 debut in 2019. The group initially struggled when the sequence launched its present aerodynamic laws in 2022. Nonetheless the group started to make strides the next yr.

He mentioned the progress had been troublesome because of the Aerodynamic Testing Restrictions, which have been launched in 2021, limiting how a lot groups [can] develop. Nonetheless he mentioned the finances cap, which additionally arrived in the identical yr, probably helped McLaren as rival groups have been spending extra.

“We’ve overtaken each group by way of improvement,” mentioned Norris. “We’ve outdone them by a great distance by way of improvement and in a time when it’s nearly tougher to do than ever.

“[There’s] extra restrictions, much less wind tunnel time, all of these various things. The finances cap, that’s in all probability been extra in our favour over the past 5 years in comparison with the finances that the opposite groups may run at.

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“However in a time when it ought to be tougher than ever to dominate, that’s precisely what the group has carried out and given us, by a great distance, the most effective automotive on the grid. That’s all the time a really good factor to say. Each driver that will get to say that, it all the time places a smile in your face.”

Norris mentioned McLaren bosses Zak Brown and Andrea Stella additionally deserve credit score for permitting him and group mate Oscar Piastri to push one another as arduous as they do.

“We’ve additionally carried out very properly as a group by way of drivers, between Oscar and myself pushing one another and delivering each single weekend,” he mentioned. “You don’t see that in some other group. I feel we’re additionally very pleased with that as drivers.

“For me, I’ve been with McLaren since I began. It was a really completely different time and place then to the place we at the moment are.

“In order that journey makes it extra particular — to know the downs, as a result of that’s lots of what it was again then — to see the rise we’ve had, to see the teamwork, the modifications, the environment distinction, and the management from Zak and Andrea particularly, has turned issues round and made us the most effective group on the planet. That’s one thing not many individuals ever get to say.”