In the round-up: Lando Norris says that the lack of different strategies in sprint races makes them ‘not the most exciting’.
In brief
Lack of strategies makes sprint races ‘not the most exciting’ says Norris
After the second sprint event of the season in Austria, Norris said that although the short races have generally worked out well for McLaren, their flat-out nature doesn’t always make for good racing.
“In general they’ve just been good for us. We’ve always gone forward, I think, in every single one,” said Norris. “I wouldn’t say they’re the most exciting because they’re just like at a period where you can almost push flat-out the whole time and therefore there’s not as much tyre deg and things like that between teams for much to happen.
“When you push flat-out it’s harder to do something different to the cars ahead,” he explained. “Especially when, in qualifying you’re split by a tenth. You’re not going to be able to do anything at all.
“But obviously the only people you could overtake were people who are out of position. So people who crashed or people who got disqualified in qualifying.
“Half the time I think will be exciting and good and then half the time not as exciting,” Norris concluded. “But every now and then it’s all something different. Which I don’t mind.”
Bottas Hungary for updates
Valtteri Bottas expects the next updates for his Alfa Romeo will be introduced at the Hungarian Grand Prix at the “earliest”.
Alfa Romeo sit sixth in the constructors’ championship on 51 ahead of Haas, having gone scoreless over the last two rounds in Britain and Austria.
“I think some teams clearly have made progress like, for example, Williams,” said Bottas in response to a question from RaceFans. “[Last] weekend they seemed better than they have been. Alpine, McLaren were a little bit faster than us, but that was not the case in Silverstone – so we need to keep progressing, otherwise we’re going to fall back.”
Asked if there were any upgrades planned for the coming races, Bottas said “I don’t think so. I hope so, but I think earliest will be Budapest.”
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