McLaren’s Lando Norris has enjoyed a great start to 2019, getting into Q3 at both of the opening races before scoring the first points of his F1 career with a sterling drive to sixth in Bahrain. And the Englishman was in doubt about the most important change McLaren had made to bring about their positive start to the season…

“The drivers,” Norris deadpanned after the Bahrain Grand Prix – before donning his technical hat and offering up a proper answer.

“We’ve tried to make [the car] a bit more simple this year,” said Norris, speaking to Sky Sports F1. “It was getting complicated and there were so many things leading onto different bits, which wasn’t confusing but it was just becoming complicated.

“In some ways, we took a couple of steps back to try and move forward, and we’ve given ourselves a better platform to start off.”