McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris admitted that he has been making far too many mistakes iജn Shanghಞai after qualifying third for the Chinese Grand Prix.

Norris was trying to usurp teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri in the final moments of Q3 when he made an error and had to abort✱ his last flying lap.

That allowed Piastri to take his first career pole position, while George Russell later denied McLaren a frontꦐ-row lockout𝔍 with a last-gasp effort in his Mercedes.

Australian GP winner Norris has had a difficult weekend in China so far, setting just the sixth-fastest time in sprint qualifying on Frꦰiday and struggling to eighth 💧in the short-distance race on Saturday morning.

Hailing McLaren for improving the car following the sprint, the 25🍎-year-old admitted that it was ow🐬n mistakes that prevented him from taking the fight to Piastri for pole position.

“I’m always disappointed when I'm not on pꦛole,” Norris said. “Oscar deserves it today, he has done a very good job all weekend. I’m happy for him, his first pole in Formula 1, so it's always cool.

“Just ✱a couple of mistakes again, kind of been my case this weekend. ൩The car is feeling a bit better today, I'm a lot more comfortable with the car.

“A step in the right dire🌸ction, especially from yesterday when I was struggling a lot and even this morning I was struggling a lot. A much better direction that we🐽 are going in. Not too disappointed.”

Norris described the behaviour of the MCL3ꦦ9 as “feisty” and explained that a number of changes had to be made to his car after he was “nowhere” in the sprint race.

“I said that plenty of times, it is [tough to drive],” he said. “I𒆙t's still quick enough, we never doubted that it's the quickest car, it can just be a little feisty at times.

“No, today is not so much that. Today was just mistakes from my🎃 side, that is all.”

“We changed quite a lot on the car because we were nowhere and we worked quite𝕴 hard to make some improvements into quali and hopefully for the race tomorrow. We will see.”