Lando Norris: Oscar and I both want to win.

      Lando Norris finished second at the Chinese Grand Prix, behind only teammate Oscar Piastri. Only ten points separate the McLaren drivers in the individual standings, and Lando is ready for the fact that at some point in the season the fight between them will escalate.

      Q: Lando, what were your impressions of the last race?Lando Norris: It's a difficult race, but I'm happy with the team's result. You know, McLaren's 50th winning double is a major achievement, so I'm happy to be a part of it. And Oscar had a great race.

      I'm glad, considering all the problems I've had in recent days, and how much effort I had to put into not fighting the car, but piloting it.

      If we talk about the pace, it was high, and the race turned out much better than I expected. I was not sure about this result, I was nervous and thought that everything would be very bad for me. That's why I'm pleased with how much progress I've made with the car in terms of piloting. I looked much stronger on Sunday, but I'm even more glad that I found the cause of my car problems. And, of course, the fact that the team won the double adds to my joy.

      Question: Can you tell us in more detail what exactly has been changed in the car?Lando Norris: The team knows about these changes, but the rest probably don't need to know. But we've changed a lot. Mainly to improve the behavior of the front end. I just can't drive a car where the front wheels aren't steering the way I want them to. In recent days, the car had severe understeer, which meant I couldn't do my best.

      I think Oscar and I both had those problems on Saturday, but we both performed better in the race. The team continues to study the car and its limitations, continues to study how to get the most out of it. I haven't felt confident in the long and short series of laps in the last few days, and I haven't felt the car the way I needed to to get the most out of it. But in the race, I already understood the car much better.

      We made changes to the mechanical and aerodynamic settings, which made the car handle much better. I'm happy with that.

      Q: At what point in the race did you start having problems with the brakes?Lando Norris: The problems started early enough. You know, it's a common trend when the brake pedal stroke gets longer during a race. I think the team hid this from me, because they saw the problem much earlier on the telemetry.

      In the last ten laps, I was pretty nervous about whether I would be able to finish, as the braking situation worsened with each lap and with each braking. It's not the most pleasant feeling when you sit in the cockpit and expect a kickback from pressing the pedal, but it just doesn't exist, and the pedal sinks to the floor. It definitely doesn't add confidence, especially on fast tracks like this one.

      I was lucky not only to finish the race, but also to finish ahead of George Russell. I was really lucky. I was losing three or four seconds in the last laps. The end of the race turned out to be difficult, and I would have preferred to attack harder and put more pressure on Oscar, but not today. We need to figure out the reasons and make sure that this doesn't happen again.

      Q: Before the race, did you and the team anticipate the possibility of such problems? Are you worried that the brake issue happened before the Suzuka stage, where the braking zones are more severe?Lando Norris: I hope that this will not happen in Suzuka! We didn't expect anything like this before the race. There was a problem that shouldn't have happened. The situation was deteriorating very quickly, probably faster than the team had anticipated when they saw the first signs. I think it happened right after the middle of the race, but then things started to deteriorate rapidly.

      I don't know exactly what the reason is, but the last five laps were critical. There shouldn't have been such a problem, and I'm sure the team will figure out the reasons and prevent a repeat.

      Q: Lando, you won the first race of the season, and Oscar won the second. It is possible that the individual title will be played between the two of you. Are you ready for this and the possible problems that fighting with a partner can lead to?Lando Norris: I wasn't watching Formula 1 at the time, but it was probably 2007. Yes, Lewis and Fernando! "You'll have to wait at the pit stop behind me, but I'm not going to leave." Or we'll have a "Multi-21" or something like that!

      No, I think we're ready. In China, we were free to compete with each other in the race, but I didn't have the pace to put Oscar under serious pressure, and he drove great on his own. He deserved to win.

      The situation was similar last weekend. You know, everyone likes to talk about those two laps when we were told to hold our positions, but the rest of the race we could fight. I'm sure we'll have a tighter fight at some point, and we're both excited about it. We're nervous and excited, and I'm sure the team is too.  But we are ready.

      Oscar and I know how to work together, we have a good time together, but at the same time we strive to get ahead of each other and show who is the best of us. And it's inevitable. There's no point in hiding it. We are rivals, and we both want to win. But we help each other, and this weekend's result was a result of mutual assistance. And we will continue to do so, because, as Oscar said, other teams can find something at any moment that will allow them to improve.

      Thanks to new products, rivals can close the gap faster than we think. As we did last year. Oscar and I continue to fight with each other, but at the same time we must think as a team and lead the team forward.