“On Friday evening, I feel when you’d have stated we’ll qualify on the entrance row and take second place, a major quantity forward of the remainder of the sector, we’d have actually taken that. We’ve now received the perfect a part of a month to work arduous and try to deliver some efficiency to the automobile in Austin.”
Pushed on how assured he feels about Verstappen’s possibilities of preserving Norris at bay within the title race from right here, Horner commented: “I feel that we’re going to battle all the best way to the top of the championship.
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“We’re 52 factors forward with six races to go – lots of races, lots of factors on the board. There’s lots of racing nonetheless to occur and we’re actually going to be preventing arduous by the subsequent triple-header after which the ultimate triple-header after that.”
He added: “I feel all people’s massively motivated within the group. We’re nonetheless preventing clearly for each championships. We took successful once more within the constructors’ once more immediately, however there’s some circuits [coming up] that we’ve carried out very effectively at prior to now.”
