For one brief moment it looked as though Lando Norris might pull off the shock of the season... but it was not to be.

He'd shadowed the Red Bull from the outset, despite almost losing out to a charging Lewis Hamilton at the restart, and though it appeared Norris would have to settle for second there was a moment on Lap 8 when the McLaren driver attempted to go around the outside of Max Verstappen in Turn 1 and having been rebuffed had another go at Turn 4.

In his pursuit of his foe the Briton posted a string of fastest laps, but by race end was 8s down on the world champion.

"It couldn't have gone much better, to be honest," said Norris at race end. "Good pace, similar to yesterday, which is the main thing.

"At the second start I was just a little bit aggressive on it," he admitted. "But I'm still happy, P2 is as good as you can get nowadays and for the time being.

Asked about that moment when he almost nailed the Dutchman, Norris said: "There's little bits where the tyres come back to you a little bit and then you can push on, but Max always seemed to have an answer to everything, which is a shame, but fair play to him, he drove a good race.

"It was tough with the wind conditions and everything, but P2 is a good result."

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1. Posted by kenji, 08/11/2023 23:47

"@Spindoctor...they already have one. It's called 'GPL Comedy Radio Comments'.....broadcast live from the RRB MobileStudio."

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2. Posted by Spindoctor, 06/11/2023 14:26

"The RBR is still at least 1/2 second a lap faster, probably more, than any other car on almost any track. It was almost shocking how as soon as Norris closed-in VMax chucked-in a couple of extra fast laps to get a decent gap.

At this rate they're going to have to fit an infotainment system fir Max to keep him amused during races..."

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3. Posted by Chester, 06/11/2023 13:10

"As Brundle offered in the broadcast, Max drove as hard as he needed to keep Lando behind. When Lando challenged Max picked up the pace and left him safely behind.

McLaren is nowhere near Red Bull in race trim."

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4. Posted by Mad Matt, 06/11/2023 11:14

"Nice that he had a try but as he later said, even if he had passed him, keeping him behind would have been somewhat challenging..... but at least he gave Max a bit of work to do :-)

Shame for Oscar who probably would have wound up challenging near the front if he hadn't been taken out through no fault of his own."

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"Max always seemed to have an answer to everything," admits Norris

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