Something rather important happened for McLaren and Lando Norris at the end of the Las Vegas Grand Prix. That’s in addition to mathematically losing the world championship to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, which had really gone in the wild Brazilian wetness and the Dutchman’s brilliance there.
This was how Norris lifted his pace on his second set of hard tyres. His delta tracks remarkably close with the stint that Lewis Hamilton produced to such acclaim when behind George Russell as the race’s end approached.
