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McLaren: Norris runs are 'development' rather than 'assessment'
Lando Norris is a contender for a seat at McLaren next season, but sporting boss Gil de Ferran insists the young charger's FP1 runs are more about driver development than an outright assessment. Norris acquitted himself well at Spa last Friday, where he was slotted into Fernando Alonso's seat in FP1. At Monza he will replace Stoffel Vandoorne in Friday morning's first free practice session, but de Ferran denies it's all part of the team's quest to determine the identity of the driver that will race alongside Carlos Sainz in 2019. "You called it assessment, I call it development," said the McLaren sporting boss. "It’s very hard to assess a driver in the strength of one free...
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