Lando Norris: "Main the F1 2025 championship does not imply something"

Lando Norris is main the 2025 Formulation 1 world championship for the primary time in six months, however that is not the rationale why he arrived in Brazil with a spring in his step.

After a Dutch Grand Prix retirement that seemed doubtlessly deadly to his title hopes, Norris discovered one other gear to overturn a 34-point deficit on team-mate Oscar Piastri.

Norris did obtain substantial assist from the Australian, who has struggled over three of the final 4 weekends. However the one issue Norris does management is his personal efficiency, and if the latest Mexico Grand Prix is something to go by the 25-year-old has hit his peak type at precisely the appropriate time because the 2025 battle nears its conclusion.

Having largely overcome his early season one-lap struggles aboard the quick however tough MCL39, Norris took pole in Mexico Metropolis with among the finest qualifying laps of his profession after which received by 30 seconds to take over the championship lead from Piastri by a single level.

It is the primary time Norris has discovered himself on prime of the factors desk since April, practically 200 days in the past. However that is not the rationale why’s been handed such a giant increase forward of this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix.

“It does not imply something in the interim,” Norris stated on Thursday within the Interlagos paddock. “It is good to be there, however I nonetheless have to go and attempt to win this weekend, and the subsequent.

“Nothing’s accomplished, nothing’s performed. There’s nonetheless 120 factors or one thing obtainable. [116 – ed.]”

“It isn’t one thing I consider in any respect, however after I get reminded about it, it’s a cool thought. Simply being within the place to do this can also be a part of my dream. To be a Formulation 1 driver, to attempt to win races, issues like that. It nonetheless feels unbelievable.”

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What has actually given Norris a spring in his step will not be his outlook within the championship, although, however how he has been capable of keep within the combat after his Zandvoort catastrophe and labored his method again into competition by way of new-found consistency.

And having not received a race because the Hungarian Grand Prix, taking such a dominant pole-to-flag win in Mexico Metropolis gave his self-belief a shot within the arm.

“When I’ve a weekend like final weekend, I nonetheless show a bit to myself that I can exit and I can dominate a weekend,” he defined. “It is good to nonetheless show to myself once in a while what I am able to and what I can obtain.

“It is also simply consistency. It isn’t like I’ve received the final six or seven races, however I have been constantly up there and constantly scoring factors. And that is truly the factor that is given me the most important increase over the previous few weeks.”

Images from Sao Paulo GP – Thursday

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