Norris completed sixth within the 2023 drivers’ standings, marking his joint finest championship end in his F1 profession, with a private better of seven podiums.
Nevertheless it was his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri who took one among solely two non-Crimson Bull wins from 28 attainable probabilities, after the Australian gained within the Qatar Grand Prix dash from world champion Max Verstappen.
Norris felt there he “ought to have fought for 2 pole positions and doubtlessly two victories” however for qualifying errors, whereas a late Q1 mistake following a gas system verify in Mexico meant he began down in nineteenth earlier than charging again to fifth.
The British driver additionally misplaced an opportunity to assert pole for the Abu Dhabi GP attributable to a mistake within the remaining sector of his final Q3 lap.
Norris was notably self-critical after his most high-profile errors in 2023, saying “I’m so s**t typically” over his crew radio after his monitor limits error in Qatar GP qualifying.
McLaren crew principal Andrea Stella was then moved to say in Abu Dhabi that “the best way he addresses his personal efficiency, I believe deserves consideration as a result of he simply appears very harsh on himself”.
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Lando Norris, McLaren, talks to the media
However Norris himself feels: “I’m, as a lot as I get irritated with myself on Saturdays at instances and individuals are like, ‘you shouldn’t beat your self up’ and all of that stuff, a variety of my finest performances come then on that subsequent day”.
“And it doesn’t impact me once I go and drive the subsequent day, as a result of I’m like, ‘oh I nonetheless simply tousled Saturday’,” Norris stated in an unique interview with Motorsport.com.
“Simply because I say it and issues, it doesn’t imply that. And I believe lots of people have totally different opinions on it, however I’ve all the time been that manner.
“Since karting, I’ve all the time been like that. It’s the best way I received introduced up and it’s the best way I’ve developed into being the motive force that I’m right now.
“And, at instances, perhaps it’s not one of the best factor and I do get simply very annoyed and down over a variety of it, however simply because I care about doing an excellent job and attempting to ship for the crew.
“So, I do it, not that I simply purposely attempt to do it, however as a result of it’s simply the best way that I work finest. And it’s the best way that I’m capable of bounce again finest.
“Due to this fact, I’ve all the time simply been very trustworthy once I assume I’ve achieved an excellent job and dangerous job.”
Norris additionally stated of his total performances in 2023 that “it was clear that there’s locations I must work on and locations I didn’t all the time ship as a lot as I ought to’ve achieved”.
He continued: “However there’s additionally a variety of circumstances of as soon as that did occur, how did I come again from that and overcome that the subsequent day?
“Which was typically the letdowns on a Saturday and making up for it on a Saturday. And I believe I did precisely that.
“95% of the time was, yeah, even once I made these errors, which I’m all the time comfortable to confess and I’ve all the time stated and so forth, was how do I bounce again the subsequent day and switch up on Sunday with the type of clear mindset of, ‘OK, I’m beginning on this place, how can I do my finest job from right here?’
“And I believe all of these races genuinely had been… really turned out to be a few of my higher races!”
