Lando Norris bemoaned front tyre graining in Las Vegas after Helmut Marko had quipped that the emergence of this McLaren issue is “very strange”. Marko made that comment in reference to Red Bull reportedly raising concerns over some rival teams adding water to their tyres for cooling,

Lando Norris insists Max Verstappen would not have won this year’s Formula 1 world championship if he was driving a McLaren. Norris saw his title hopes disintegrate at the last race in Brazil when Verstappen produced one of his best-ever drives to claim victory from 17th on the grid in wet conditions.

Asked to sum up his season in three words, Lando Norris thinks for a long time before settling on an answer. “Pretty damn good,” he says eventually. Then he has another think and downgrades the ‘good’ to ‘decent’.