Lando Norris is focused on being the “best of the rest” at the British Grand Prix on Sunday.
The McLaren driver claimed sixth on the grid in a wet qualifying at Silverstone on Saturday, a result he credited on producing the best laps when it mattered as conditions varied.
“I’m very happy with today,” he said.
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“It’s so easy to miss a lap in conditions like this, especially on the inter when conditions are getting better and better and then suddenly getting worse or vice versa.
“You need to know when you can really push and when you can really go for your laps.
“I think that is what we did today. In Q2, you had to do that right at the beginning, in the first two laps. If you didn’t, it got too wet. In Q3, it was all about doing it in the last two laps.
“To be ahead of a Mercedes and almost two I would say is a very good job by us, considering they have a much quicker car by a good six or seven-tenths,” he added. “I’m very happy to be ahead of at least one of them.”
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However, looking ahead to the race, with George Russell starting two places behind in eighth, he feels remaining in the top six is a forlorn chase on pace alone.
“No chance,” he said of keeping the Mercedes behind, “but I have a chance with the rest of them, so hopefully just staying behind them [Mercedes] is the target.”
As for teammate Daniel Ricciardo, he was among the drivers caught out by the deteriorating weather in Q2 and will line up in 14th.
