Norris was speaking in a new BBC podcast F1: Back at Base, How To Go Racing, which followed the McLaren and Aston Martin teams over the final 10 races of the 2024 season.

The series, narrated by American actor Josh Hartnett, goes inside the teams’ factories, at Woking and Silverstone.

The podcast spoke to those at the heart of operations, including team leaders Andrea Stella and Zak Brown at McLaren, Mike Krack and Andy Cowell at Aston Martin and drivers Norris, Oscar Piastri, double world champion Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.

At McLaren, Norris and Piastri combined to bring the constructors’ championship back to the team’s Woking headquarters for the first time since 1998.

Piastri, also a first time F1 winner in 2024, told the series: “I feel like I’ve definitely improved from my rookie season.

“In qualifying, I’ve made life a bit more difficult for myself than I would like, but the positive in that has been that I’ve had the ability to come through in the races and make the ground back up.

“It’s now a case of just getting everything together rather than trying to fill in some missing gaps, which I think was the case last season.”