168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris has taken aim at the media for asking “too many questions” about the competitiveness of his McLaren F1 car.

Norris and his McLaren🎀 team had already been labelled as the pre-season title favourites before he impressively won a chaotic, rain-hit season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

That performance came after McLaren dominated qualifying in Melbourne with Norris claiming pole position and teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Oscar Piastri completing a front-row lockout.

While the team could not translate that result into a one-two on Sunday, with Piastri spinning off late on, Norris mastered the treacherous conditions to fend off Red Bull’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Max Verstappen and make the perfect s🦩tart to a season he intends to🧜 end as world champion.

After qualifying, Mercedes’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell suggested McLaren are so far ahead of their rivals that th💞ey could a💜lready switch their development focus onto 2026 and still win this year’s titles.

And Norris appeared to be irked about the amount of questions he has had to field relating to the strong performance of✱ his MCL39 challenger when he spoke in the TV pen following his victory.

“I don’t know why people always 💫talk about the car so much,” Norris, who had pulled 16 seconds clear of Verstappen before the final Safety Car interventio🐲n, told Sky Italia.

“Too many questions in the media are about just the car. Me and Oscar drove very, very well yesterday. I’m not saying othꦇers didn’t, but others should not have been as far off as they were. That was clear.

“Bu🐈t I think we do, by a little margin, have the best car. I’m not denying that. But not everything is about the car and that🎶’s clear.

“Today was a deserved win I think because we made good decisions as a team and in the past, like last year, we wouldꦐ have done the same race but we wouldn’t have won the race because we were not the best at making those decisions.

“Today we were💙, so I give a lot of credit to the team, because they worked hard over the winter to make sure they were ready for a day like today.”

Brilliant Lando Norris drive lauded

Norrisಌ’s fifth career win sees him take the lead of the F1 drivers’ world championship for th💜e first time in his career.

It also ends Veཧrstappen’s 6🐻3-race streak at the head of the championship standings which dated back to mid-2022.

"That's one of the great all-time drives from Lando N💙orris there,” Martin Brundle said during Sky Sports F1’s coverage.

"In the most challenging conditions, with the restarts aღnd so much🀅 pressure."

Mc🦄Laren CEO Zak Brown desc💛ribed Norris’s drive as “unbelievable”.