McLaren “in the middle of nowhere” for rest of Baku F1 weekend

Helped by the arrival of a tweaked floor and wing changes as part of ongoing revisions to the MCL60, Norris banked the team’s best qualifying result of the year with seventh in Baku.

His time of 1m41.281s left him behind only the Ferraris, Red Bulls, Mercedes and the sixth-placed Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso, who lapped a narrow 0.03 seconds ahead of the Briton.

But Norris reckoned McLaren had not executed its one-lap strategy perfectly to cost a top-four start for…