Lando Norris: Front End Just Not Strong Enough | Post Qualifying Interview | Singapore GP 2025

How are you feeling? Because I know you've been poorly this weekend. It's not a good place to be feeling poorly. No, because anywhere you don't want to be poorly is here, so I'm better today. Yesterday and the day before I was struggling a little bit. It hit me pretty quickly, but it also went away relatively quickly. So I'm probably not optimal, but yeah, no excuses for today. Certainly the one where you can sweat it out anyway, isn't it? Talk to me then about that qualifying, because I think to people watching, they're expecting McLaren to be back on top a bit more here. So where's that pace missing at the moment? Different. I think others are just also improving. The Mercedes are doing a very good job. Red Bull, like we've seen, have been very good the last few weekends. Nothing to surprise. I think the only thing is Singapore has always been a little bit of a weird one, and we know whenever we struggle with the front tyres, we struggle a lot as a team. The whole weekend, we've been struggling with the front tyres, and in the contrary to that, we know that anytime everyone in the grid, like everyone in F1, struggles with the front tyres, like they are this weekend with the new tarmac bits, Mercedes is normally always the team that comes out on top, like Vegas last year, for instance, and things like that. So I think we understand when you put two and two together, why we've struggled a little bit just the front of the car not being strong enough and too much understeer and things like that. Then you have to make compromises. You almost give up rear grip for that, and you just kind of get into a bad area. So we understand it. Making improvements on all these things is the bigger, not worry, but the bigger thing we have to work on, and today makes me feel like no matter even if we're fighting, we're trying to win the constructors this weekend, six rounds early, seven rounds early, whatever it is, it just feels disappointing that we're not quick enough. That's why it really doesn't matter when you say you dominated one weekend or two or three. When you come here and you're just three tenths off, you just feel too slow and you don't feel like you've done a very good job. So yeah, we clearly have work to do. Both those teams, funnily enough, bought new front wings this weekend, so they are still developing whatever they can, what's left of 2025. Do you think you're going to have to end up trying to do a bit more of that than you expected to? Yes, it's too late now. OK, so race pace wise, you're usually better on a Sunday. Is there potential here? But it's a one stop, it's tricky. Is there still potential to win this tomorrow? I think you're asking for a lot. I mean, you got it. I'm sure I'll go back to my room later and we'll ask, you know, as a team, we'll ask ourselves the same questions. But this track is all about qualifying and there's always chances in the race, but not many. And if you're starting where we are, normally it's, you know, can you get on to third or second or whatever? But a win, like I saw from me last year, as soon as you're out front, clean air, it's just easy. We're not in a position this year. Yep, a lot of work to do tomorrow. Thanks.