Lando Norris’ race engineer has shed light on how they overcome external pressures to deliver gr🦩and prix-winning drives.

Norris brilliantly won the F1 Singapore Grand Prix last time out, his third win of the season to edge clo🌟ser to Max Verstappen at the summit of the drivers’ standings.

Notably in Si🔯ngapore,💜 Norris ended his hoodoo of losing leads on the first lap when starting from pole position.

But Will Joseph, who has been in Norris’ ear throughout his F1 rise, insists they never focused 🍃on th✤at unwanted record.

“We don’t need to discuss those things,” Joseph told the F1 N💟ation podcas𝕴t.

“We talk about strengths, we go through ho꧃w our driving was on Friday, and where opportunities might be.

“W🧔e don’t need to dwell on things that other people say are a problem that we don’t necessari🧸ly see.

“In the factory we have reviewed race starts. We thought we’d find something special. But it w𓄧asn’t as bad as everyone was trying to make it out to be.

“We discuss the things that are in our control. And th💛e results show.”

He added: “We put some demons to bed.

“Peop🦩le can no longer say we can’t get ou🐽t of the first corner, we can’t lead on the first lap.

“We൩ led start to finish and didn’t put a foot wronꦦg.”

The only blemishes of an otherwise perfect weekend for the McLaren dr🐲iver in Singapore w🌸as when he briefly touched the barriers.

Joseph revealed wh𝓰at the reaction was inside McLaren’s garage.

“When Lando said he hit the wall, we do our normal procedure to check over every🦩thing,” he said.

“What you’re trying to do is: have I got a puncture? H🔯ave I damaged the front wing?

“If you’ve damaged anyt๊hing else, then there’s not much you can do about it. If you’ve damaged the front wing, you can stop and change it.

“You are trying to make that assessment quickly.

“The damage wasn’t severe enough to do anything.

“When we made the stop, we’d alrea🔜dy decided that we didn’tꦑ need to do anything with the front wing.

“Did it🐭 affect performance? In a very small manner. When we look afterwards, it scuffed the data. Pressure was lost. But small, I’d say.”

Joseph summarised Nor𝄹ris’ Singapo☂re win: “He did a fantastic job. From Lap 1, we’ve been on the pace. Lando demonstrated how quick he can be.

“We tried to take small steps to make thꦉe car quicker. He has been incredible.

“In the race we said there were two ways it might go - at the beginning it became clear𓆉💯 we could push on and build a gap. “Neither one of us expected the gap to be so large.

“We cleared a Safety Car window then a pit stop 𒉰wꦐindow.

“The pace was phenomenal. We were surpri𝓡sed how much pace there was.”