Lando Norris Confident of Turning the Screws on Alpine As Fight for P4 in Constructors’ Championship Intensifies: “We Are Still in the Fight”

With four races to go, McLaren and Lando Norris have their target set for the 2022 season. While eyeing the P4 spot in the constructors’ championship, the British team is all set to take the fight to Alpine. Team driver Norris further elaborates as he thinks they’re still in the fight.

Norris, during the team talk back at the back at Woking, England, has opened up about their objective. In a short speech shared by the official Twitter handle of the McLaren F1 team, the 22-year-old driver urged everyone to take note of their target and approach accordingly.

Talking about this, the young Briton shared, “Well, I think we’ve one clear objective… to fight against Alpine.”

“So that’s our clear objective. Honestly, we could say that they are ahead of us in pace. We can also still fight them. I think in general if we build a quicker car this season.”

“We’re still in the fight, we were ahead of them in last Singapore, so I think things like reliability, things like strategy, we’ve done a better job than them the whole season.”

“So if we can keep that up until the very end. We can still keep up the fight so, that’s our plan,” further asserted the McLaren driver.

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How McLaren has fared against Alpine in the 2022 F1 season?

In the 2022 F1 constructors’ championship, McLaren stands in P5 with 130 points, as compared to Alpine’s 143. Eyeing for the P4 spot, which the French team currently occupies, McLaren will have to outshine them in the coming races in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Abu Dhabi.

Statistically, the French team has an upper hand over their British counterpart in terms of pace. However, they lack reliability, and Fernando Alonso suffered multiple DNFs. This cost the Spaniard and Alpine a bunch of points.

McLaren, on the other hand, has tried to get themselves ahead of Alpine with Norris. With Ricciardo underperforming, the Papaya team is struggling to keep up with the joint Alpine pressure put up by Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso.

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When it comes to driver’s points, Norris leads among the four drivers being in P7 with 101 points. He is then followed by two Alpine drivers, Ocon in P8 with 78 points and Alonso in P9 with 65 points. Meanwhile, Daniel Ricciardo occupies P12 with 29 points.

As F1 goes to the United States next week, it’ll be interesting to see if McLaren can match up to Alpine’s performance.