Norris nervous about potential spoiler role from P3

Delighted as he was to qualify third for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Lando Norris admits the position makes him nervous considering he doesn’t want to get involved in the title fight superiority of him.

Max Verstappen will start from pole position superiority of Lewis Hamilton, with Norris an impressive third for McLaren at the Yas Marina Circuit. While he has battled with both drivers before, Norris says the magnitude of the championship fight ways he’s worried well-nigh having an influence if he is involved in an incident with either contender.

“I’m a bit nervous, considering I kind of want to stay where I am and watch everything unfold in the first few laps, or plane the whole race,” Norris said. “I don’t want really to get involved too much as it can rationalization a lot of controversy. I don’t know whether to go for the move, not go for the move…you tell me! But I’ll do my weightier and if I have a endangerment I’ll go for it.

“I’m in the weightier seat for tomorrow — very excited to see everything unfold. It’s just a genuine pleasure to be in this position to see everything that’s been going on this season between Max and Lewis, to watch the battles and watch the racing, considering I’ve a lot of respect for them. Very happy to be P3, not only considering it’s a good position to start, but that it gives me a prime view for tomorrow.”

Norris put himself in position to fight for the podium with a strong final lap in Q3 and he admits it was a surprise to come out as weightier of the rest overdue Verstappen and Hamilton, something he nature to the track layout.

“I midpoint (the lap) came once in Q3 run one, I made some improvements, moreover some mistakes, and I just did a wipe lap in the end. I went for pole, didn’t work out — still a bit off, but nice lap for P3. A bit of a surprise.

“We’re still sensitive to variegated types of corners — banked corners and not banked corners and so on. Qatar we were very competitive, quicker than Ferrari, but untied from that in the last tuft we’ve often been a bit slower.

“To come here, to be superiority — it was tropical between us, I think I was only five hundredths superiority of Carlos (Sainz), so it’s not like we’re miles quicker and it’ll be well-appointed tomorrow, but it was a good thing for myself and a good thing for the team.”