“It’s not like I’m nervous of people seeing what I can or can’t do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think. I think it was more of a personal thing,” Norris said

“How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap. In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‘OK we’ll have another go’ instead of it being the only chance you get.

“I think a bit of it is not having the most confidence in myself, just in general. It’s just something I kind of struggled with, not in every season, but Formula 1 mainly and in F2, a bit in F3. Just in general, it’s something I suffered with at the beginning of a season.

“It’s something I have worked on. I have someone I see to help with those situations, to put myself in a better place. So it’s definitely something I’ve already worked on and will continue to work on.

“But at the same time, it’s something that will also just come naturally with having more races and having results like I have done. And obviously as well, people telling me if I’ve done a good or a bad job.”

Norris said he felt McLaren was giving him plenty of support in the early part of the season, adding he felt he was benefitting from the extra focus given his rookie status.

“I think they’ve gone out of their way this year,” Norris said.

“From what I’ve seen, it seems like they’ve put more effort or more work into trying to help me as a driver, or the drivers, to be more prepared, to be in a better situation going into every race.

“Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.”