For the Singapore weekend, the Woking team brought a raft of new parts which have been fitted only to Norris’s car, and there wasn’t time to prepare enough for Oscar Piastri.
Revised sidepods are the biggest visible change, along with new front and rear wing endplates.
Norris qualified fourth at the Marina Bay track, just 0.286s behind the Ferrari pole winner Carlos Sainz, and followed the Spaniard home in the race to finish second - ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who rounded out the podium positions.
“It's done everything that it should have done,” said Norris of the upgrades. “Everything kind of worked very well from FP1 already, same as Austria when we bolted everything on.
“It's done what we expected, worked as expected, and was pretty much good to go from the first runs. So I think that's a very positive thing. There were some things to tweak, and little things.
“But otherwise, a very good point that it's just on the car and good to go kind of thing, which is always a positive and reassuring sign for the future.”
Source: Autosport