For a while Lando Norris Formula 1 king Max Verstappen made fire under the butt in the previous season. The Brit has licked blood. The title is scheduled for 2025.
“I came pretty close to last year. I was always a bit far back, but I was able to sniff it (on the title in the driver’s World Cup, D.Red.). I had the feeling: ‘Okay, that’s how it feels.’ He was within reach, “said Lando Norris, according to” Racingnews365 “on the edge of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
For the upcoming season, he had to “put a few things in order, work on a few things and then come back more,” said the McLaren pilot.
Norris ended the 2024 Formula 1 season as Vice World Champion behind series champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull). After picking up in the second half of the season in the meantime, the Dutch pulled away again in the final phase and made his fourth title perfectly with the third last Grand Prix in Las Vegas.
Norris was 63 points behind Verstappen in the Endtable, but won the season finale in Abu Dhabi and McLaren secured the first designer title since 1998. The 25-year-old Englishman took four GP victories in the previous year, including his premiere victory in Miami.
Lando Norris: McLaren “even more focused”
Norris emphasized that neither he nor McLaren switches back a gear, but stay fully on the gas. “Athletes can easily happen that they rest when things go well, that can quickly slip away,” the man from Bristol warned.
McLaren realized “that we want to make it easier. We want to continue working so that we can win these races easier and don’t have as difficult as last year,” said Norris.
The team remained “very focused” between the years. “It would have been easy for everyone to go home and say: ‘All well, we have it, let’s relax.’ They did the opposite, “the Briton praised his racing team. “You said: ‘We want more’ and you worked even harder and tried to find new things for this year.”