The Las Vegas Strip Circuit, Thursday, 20 November

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Team Principal Andrea Stella, after Free Practice for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

FP1	1m35.258s (+0.456s)	25 laps	6th
FP2	1m33.602s	13 laps	1st

“We didn’t manage to get too much from FP2, given the disruption, but we did get a slightly better feeling than in FP1. We made some good progress and we’ve got a reasonable feeling altogether. Some positives to build on and some areas to try and improve going into tomorrow.” 

FP1	1m35.450s (+0.648s)	27 laps	8th
FP2	1m34.493s (+0.891s)	12 laps	14th

“With the Red Flags in FP2, it’s difficult to know exactly where we sit, but the car has decent pace and there are plenty of positives. FP1 was a pretty good session, and we just didn’t get a lap on the Soft with the disruption in FP2. We’ll do some more tweaking overnight and see what weather we’ve got tomorrow.”

“This track requires intense work to fine-tune the car and find the right reference points for the drivers. It is therefore important to try to make the most of all the time available in Free Practice, which only happened today in the first of the two sessions. In the second one, light rain at the beginning and then a couple of Red Flags in the final part made the work of all the teams much more disrupted. In particular, the information that is normally gathered during long runs is missing.  

“For our part, we know that there is still work to be done to adjust the setup of the car: we know that the characteristics of the track and the conditions in which we are racing are not the best for us, but we will do our utmost to put the drivers in the best possible position to fully exploit the potential available.”