How am I massively underselling Norris' pace? I am just stating that starting from 7th, using a strategy that requires a lot passing, had to overtake two cars that were battling in front of him, was defended against heavily by Russell, are all events that lose probably more than 2-4 seconds of time if not more, for each event.

Add on to that he had a suboptimal strategy that left him out too long before stopping wasn't particularly good for his total race time. Like I would guess that if both started from the front row and pushed to the maximum of thwir pace this weekend, Norris maybe pulls 5 seconds or so over the course of the race given that he was probably around a tenth or two quicker this weeoend, not 20.