McLaren 'trying to step it up' in China - Norris

So, Lando, round one of the season behind us. What have you and the team taken from that first weekend? A long year ahead, still plenty of opportunities, but what's the deep grief been like, the position that you're in at the moment? A lot of stuff, I guess. A weekend full of learnings. Some good things, some not so good things, but all things that we need to, we want to improve on. So it's been a busy week for the whole team, both the team that are here travelling, but also the team back in MTC. Trying to step it up as much as possible, learn what we could from others, learn what we could from ourselves and do a much better job all round here in Shanghai. Thanks. Hey, Lando, after Australia, there's been quite a bit of discussion about the power unit, like let's say the teams that are not Mercedes, basically. Do you feel that it's only the software side or also the chassis for you guys? No, it's both. I mean, it's understanding of power unit. We haven't done as good of a job as we should have done. So our own understanding is not to the level that we want it to be at. And the team have worked very hard to improve that. But no, I also said the chassis is not, again, to the level that we want it to be at. It's certainly not bad. I mean, we're certainly not miles away. I think we're not as far as it almost looked in Melbourne. But we need to improve it more. But we know that we know where we're stronger, where we're weaker. Our tyre management was pretty tricky last weekend in Melbourne and might be quite tricky again here with the graining. So we kind of need to improve a little bit of everything. Honestly, it wasn't just one thing or just the other. Both our car and our understanding of the power unit needs to improve. And the team have done a lot of work on that to try and do better this weekend. I mean, it's good things and bad things. Good things is a lot of track time, a lot of situations where you're going to need to be prepared and learn. At the same time, so early on in the season, FP1, FP2, FP3 would have been nice for us because there's still a lot of things we need to learn as a team. So it's certainly made it, it's going to make it tricky for every team here to to perfect everything within one session before you're going into qualy. But that's part of it. So working hard, we're focusing on on some of the bigger things that we can improve from last weekend and we'll see if we can improve them for tomorrow. I believe you said last week that Ferrari is probably the best car of the grid at the moment. What are the things that that you still need to to work on to close that gap? I mean, let's say in a simple way, it's just more downforce, more load, which just allows us to do a lot of things better. But it's just very easy to make mistakes at the minute. And even when we feel like we do a perfect corner, we're still not quite quick enough compared to them in some corners. So we just need to develop the car more. And the team back in MTC are working very hard on doing this. At the same time, maybe there's more we can just get out of it on a weekend. But it's hard when you have to concentrate so much on the power unit and some on the car. You know, you have a lot of focus on two things. So it's also understanding for us on how to improve those things at the same time. But, yeah, creating a car that's just a little bit more drivable for us as drivers, a little bit more forgiving, which is tricky. But the main thing is just more downforce, which is more grip and makes our life much easier.