Norris on full calendar: "Three long weeks for my team"

Lando Norris says the teams must do everything they can to help protect engineers and mechanics from the tight schedule of Formula 1 this season. Many races are kept very short due to the coronavirus.

Norris was spotted after the Hungarian Grand Prix when he was tinkering with his own McLaren MCL35. The young Briton helped his team stripping the car so it would be ready to go to its next destination sooner. Norris insists that it isn't the drivers who suffer the hardest stress in a run of nine races in eleven weekends.

"Three long weeks for my team. Thought they could use some extra hands", Norris said in a tweet after the race in Hungary. "For the drivers it’s not too bad, you know", Norris said to Motorsport.com earlier that weekend when he was asked about the impact of the full calendar.

"In some ways we do the least amount of work in terms of being at the track as in driving the actual race car, compared to the time mechanics spend working on the car and building it and management, or the engineers spend at the racetrack", continues the McLaren driver.

Norris says he finds it much more difficult for the engineers and mechanics: "Honestly, it is tougher for the engineers and the mechanics because they’re the guys and girls who spend the most time at the track working and travelling. It’s more of a kind of trying to look after them and keep them in good condition: especially the mechanics who are doing the pit stops and so on. They also have a big impact on performance."