Norris used the soft C4 tyre in Wednesday’s afternoon session to lead the way with a 1m19.568s lap, over half a second quicker than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
But the Briton, who completed 103 laps in his McLaren MCL36, said he was more interested in gathering valuable data for the team on F1’s first day of on-track running, and dismissed that fans and observers would now start getting too excited about McLaren’s potential pace.
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“It’s way too early to tell anything, of course,” Norris said.
“Now we’re P1, everyone’s going to think we’re going to win the [first] race. No chance.
“I think we’ve made some good improvements from the beginning of the day, but we’re only on day one of the season and even if we’re amazing now, everything could change by the time we get to the first race.
“And the rate of development everyone’s going to bring to the first half the season is going to be extremely high.
“I didn’t want to…
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