McLaren’s Lando Norris says kicking off the 2020 F1 season with three consecutive races will prove more difficult for divers than getting up to speed.
Formula 1’s disrupted campaign will kick off next week in Austria where drivers will race twice at the Red Bull Ring – on July 5 and 12 – before battling a week later at the Hungaroring on the outskirts of Budapest.
Norris doesn’t believe that drivers will take long to get back into the groove but an immediate three-race stint will be physically challenging according to the McLaren charger despite everyone’s likely impeccable fitness levels.
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“It’s not going to be easy for all of the drivers, but I think we’re all very good at what we do and I don’t think it would take us too long, probably laps really, to get back in the hang of really how to drive the car,” Norris told Autosport.
“But putting the body straight into a triple-header, physically, is probably going to be a bigger challenge jumping in than actually getting up to speed with the car.