Mystery debris not to blame for Norris' French GP struggles

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The piece of debris Norris extracted from his McLaren after the FrenchGP was not to blame for his lack of pace in the race. Full story: F1

TV pictures showed Norris noticing the stray aero part after alighting from his car, before examining it and placing it in the cockpit.team confirmed to Motorsport.com that the part was picked up in the closing stages and had no impact on Norris's race.

"The new tyres, low fuel hides a lot of our issues and problems, and as soon as we get into high fuel, old tyres, just all those issues are exposed, and we're just quite slow. "We did make some improvements since Friday in understanding the package, it just seems as a general package it loses a bit of performance come Sunday."Norris acknowledged that qualifying pace can be handy at places like the next venue in Hungary, but said he would prefer to have speed on Sundays.

 

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