“At that time we’ve conceded the race on tempo. He touched the wall for the primary time after which touched it for the second time, however clearly obtained away with it.
“I truly suppose Max drove a really robust race right now and that was what we had, which when you think about the place we had been a few weeks in the past, I feel now we have made some actual progress. Clearly we’ve obtained quite a lot of work to do earlier than Austin.”
Horner provided his congratulations to Norris and McLaren for his or her success in Singapore, including: “They’d a really robust automobile this weekend and significantly on the primary stint they had been very fast.
“I feel on the arduous tyre we regarded in higher form, however in fact the hole is means too huge by then, at a monitor that anyway it’s very arduous to overhaul [on].
“I feel in case you roll again the clock to Friday, on Friday evening I feel in case you’d have stated we’ll qualify on the entrance row and take second place, a major quantity forward of the remainder of the sphere, I feel we’d have actually taken that.