In the round-up: Lando Norris is helping his struggling team mate in McLaren’s drive to beat Alpine.
In brief
No McLaren mind games while Alpine battle hots up
Norris says he isn’t playing any ‘mind games’ with struggling team mate Daniel Ricciardo.
Past the halfway point in his second season at the team, Ricciardo is yet to find his form. Norris, who has signed two new deals with McLaren since his latest team mate arrived, made it clear he isn’t trying to turn the psychological screw on Ricciardo.
“No, it’s the opposite,” he said when asked by RaceFans at the Hungaroring. “I’m trying to help him as much as I can.
“It’s for the benefit of us as a team to try and beat Alpine, in the end of the day. He sees everything that I see in terms of data and everything.
“I’m offering more help than what I normally would. If you were fighting for a world championship, I’m saying more things that maybe what I would do. Just because that’s what we need for the team, it’s what I want for the team at the minute. So no [it’s] the opposite of mind games, whatever that is. ‘Mind soothing’.”
Super Formula reveals 2023 calendar, but not length of season
Super Formula, Japan’s top open-wheel racing series, has revealed which circuits it will be racing at next year but not how many races it 2023 season will consist of.
It is practically identical to the 2022 calendar, with the first race weekend taking place at Fuji Speedway on 7th-9th April. The first trip to Suzuka, the current home of the Japanese Grand Prix, is two weeks later and Autopolis is visited on 19th-21st May.
During summer Super Formula races at Sportsland Sugo (16th-18th June), Fuji (14th-16th July) and Twin Ring Motegi (18th-20th August), then there is break of two months before the season concludes at Suzuka on 27th-29th October.
This year the season opener, finale and Motegi round consist of two races while the weekends inbetween are single-race events. The 2023 calendar reveal did not mention if any events will feature two races next year.
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