McLaren has struggled for pace since the Bahrain test, where the main focus was on resolving a brake cooling issue.
After a disappointing Sakhir race saw the orange cars finish 14th and 15th, the team didn’t bring any updates to Jeddah.
However, having qualified a respectable 11th, Norris moved up the field in the race, helped by a pitstop under the safety car and some attrition ahead.
In the closing laps he battled for sixth place with Esteban Ocon, before losing out on the final lap and having to settle for seventh and the team’s first points of 2022.
“I think it’s massive for us,” he said when asked by Autosport what the result would do for the team.
“It’s just for the motivation for everyone. We still have a lot of things to look forward to, it’s not like we’ve had two terrible weekends and it’s like, no one wants to smile. We can smile a little bit and we understand we have a lot of work to do.
“And there’s a lot of progress we’ve got to make if we want to be anywhere near…
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