Lando Norris is on positively fine form as he contemplates the pleasure of competing in the Japanese Grand Prix. The young British driver’s good humour is infectious, he is clearly loving racing, especially in his resurgent McLaren, but he is altogether less complimentary in his assessment of the current Formula One regulations that delivered the cumbersome machinery he and the other drivers will race in the early hours of Sunday morning at Suzuka.
In the McLaren hospitality area in Japan, still on a high from a superb second place at the last round in Singapore, the 23-year-old’s tone changes to one of almost quiet exasperation as he laments the restraints the management of modern F1 cars put on drivers. “You feel like you are not driving at 100%, you have to drive at 95% as well as you can,” he says.
