Lando Norris finished where he started - in seventh - in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix
In the context of their battle for the Formula 1 World Championship, Lando Norris needed a weekend in which his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri dropped the ball.
He got one - but managed to pull back only six points on the Australian with a seventh-place finish in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, a long way behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who took his second dominant victory in a row.
Was this a missed opportunity, as Norris kept being asked over the course of Saturday and Sunday in Baku, and kept denying? Or did the Briton do the best he could in a difficult set of circumstances?
After the race, Norris pointed to qualifying on Saturday as the root of his race result.
