Lando Norris still has hopes of challenging Max Verstappen for the Formula 1 title despite losing out to the Dutchman in the Spanish Grand Prix.
Lando Norris still has hopes of challenging Max Verstappen for the Formula 1 title this year despite losing out to the Red Bull driver in a grand prix he felt he should have won for a second consecutive time.
"But Max needs to stop winning. He is still extending it at the minute but we cannot afford to let him run away with it. If I made some better decisions in Canada and had made a better start today, we would have won two races.The result leaves Norris 69 points behind Verstappen. But there are 14 races still to go in this, the longest F1 season in history. A fourth title is Verstappen’s to lose, but if anyone is going to challenge him this year, it looks like being Norris.
Then, Verstappen passed Russell at the start of the third lap. That allowed Verstappen to build a small lead while Norris, his tyres now too hot for a challenge on Russell, slipped back. "I am happy with 99% of things,” Norris said. "It’s just the 1% - which is a big part of it - wasn’t enough today. And in Spain, but for that start, he could have done so again. Norris could have won three of the past five races.
Lando Norris says the next two races, at Austria and Silverstone, are at "two of my favourite tracks" And Stella said he would not be distracted by Norris’ pessimistic assessment of what might have been.
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