With his victory at the Hungary GP, Lando Norris may not have turned the ominous momentum in the World Cup fight against his McLarenstall rival Oscar Piatri, but at least made balance of power. A Formula 1 expert praises the British and finds: Norris acts and transformed.
Sometimes it looked like it in the first half of the 2025 Formula 1 season when Derate Lando Norris in the World Cup duel with his garage neighbor Oscar Piatri.
Again and again Norris scattered small mistakes (chen) that cost him places and points. Against the mentally stated solid block Piatri, many experts also saw the “emotion bomb” from England also in terms of disadvantage in terms of psychology.
But: it seems that Norris caught up. In Austria and in his Silverstone home game, he reaches two victories in a row. He replied to the Piatri victory in Belgium with the triumph at the race in Hungary – despite a bad start, in which he initially slipped to five from third place. In the driver’s World Cup, Norris is only nine points behind Piatri during the summer break.
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“Mega!” Formula 1 expert Herbert Adelt Norris
“He was brilliant. He was behind after the start, but then drove brilliantly,” said Formula 1 expert Johnny Herbert in conversation with the McLaren man in conversation “Grosvenor Casino”. He even sent Norris’ father Adam a message and wrote: “This is mega!”, Reported Herbert.
Norris prevailed in Budapest thanks to a clever one-stop strategy and, after his tire service, held 40 rounds on hard tires.
“I was a little worried when he raised the hard tires and the fastest racing rounds drove,” said the Brit. “I was sitting on the TV and said: ‘Don’t break her, don’t overwhelm them!”
In view of the “many criticism of his achievements, its ability in the race and its constant”, the Norris victory did well, Herbert said. “He turned it over.”
“Mental Change” at Norris
Michael Schumacher’s former teammate of Norris sees Norris a “mental change”. The over-nose Norris from its early phase of the career “is no longer there,” said the 61-year-old. “Even the bubbling lando, which we may have seen at the beginning of the year, is no longer there.”
“We saw him in the cooling room after the race, there was a very professional Lando Norris. There was a completely different mentality that he takes into the cockpit because he knows how important this is for the World Cup,” said Herbert.