Along with his own performance, Lando Norris praises his team for its "best race in terms of execution".

Though seemingly caught on the hop at the start, losing out to both Kimi Antonelli and then Liam Lawson, Norris passed the struggling kiwi on Lap 6 and then set about shadowing the Mercedes until going for the undercut on Lap 16.

When Antonelli spun in Turn 1 on Lap 20, Norris retook the lead and held it until the end, save for a few laps when he made his second stop of the afternoon.

Following his superb performance on Saturday, when he claimed pole in difficult conditions - and with a little help from George Russell and Mercedes - it was a faultless performance, marred only by the podium celebrations which saw him hit in the face by a firework, causing him to smash his bottle of Champagne.

"Conditions, weather, it's important to not make mistakes," said the Briton post-race. "There's a lot thrown at everyone on a day like today, but probably our best race in terms of execution.

"I forced Kimi to push," he continued, "he went into a mistake I could capitalize on. From my side not making any mistakes which is so easy to do. A great performance from the team.

"It is about good strategy, good pit stops, and a car I could fight for a win with today."

Inevitably asked about the start, he replied: I probably can't say, or I will get a fine. I wasn't too pleased, but I knew things could easily change and a lot could happen.

"It was a very tough race," he admitted, "very, very tough. Obviously, not the best of launches off the line, but a lot of challenges, obviously, with the conditions.

"Going on to slicks in the wet is always tough, especially when you're pushing for the lead and trying to catch up a little bit. The main thing was I just kept it cool and didn't make any mistakes. I had the pace when I needed to, so it was good. It's nice to be back on the top step, and what a place to do it as well."

Recently, Norris and his teammate have been critical of their cars, basically feeling that for every step forward they took, they were knocked back two. Nonetheless, the 2026 world champion is confident that his team is working flat-out to turn things around.

"We're trying, you know," said Norris. "I'm trying my best, and I think this weekend we had an opportunity to get pole yesterday, we had an opportunity to win.

"I feel like most times this year, when there's been an opportunity, I went for it and we've been able to achieve it. So I have to say a big thanks to the team because they're still working very hard.

"It's annoying when you can't give them a good result back, like the last few weeks. But certainly this weekend, I feel like we've been able to give something back to them and give them a little bit of reward for their hard work. So, as always, a big thanks to them, and we have to keep pushing till the end of the year.

"As much as we are happy, we are not as happy as we could be," he admitted. "We know we are not at the level we need to be yet. We are getting there slowly but we have work to do."

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