Cautious Norris “would rather be last” on first day of F1 testing

Norris used the soft C4 tyre in Wednesday’s afternoon session to lead the way with a 1m19.568s lap, over half a second quicker than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.

But the Briton, who completed 103 laps in his McLaren MCL36, said he was more interested in gathering valuable data for the team on F1’s first day of on-track running, and dismissed that fans and observers would now start getting too excited about McLaren’s potential pace.

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