Norris does not think about the championship. “I’m going one race at a time”
Max Verstappen came back 104 points to Oscar Piastri last year, finishing second in the championship against his own Lando Norris. Now it is the Briton who is asked if he could do something similar with Antonelli, but he takes it calmly. “It sounds boring, but I’m going one race at a time, it’s the truth. It doesn’t make sense to think so long term”.
Lando Norris came to be with a deficit of 101 points Regarding Antonelli after the Belgian GP, in two races he has become in 83. He already joked during the week explaining that, if the Mercedes make the same mistakes as them, during the week they will have a chance.
With this result and the previous ones, questions have arisen about Norris’ chances of defending his world title. “Now we have a break to reset, learn everything we can, There are still many that we can improve and we must improve if we want to fight for the championship“. He insists that there is a lot to change for the better despite the victories.
The Briton has not just ruled it out, in the end, with the right car and a bit of champion luck at key moments, anything is possible in Formula 1. But the distance, and above all, Antonelli’s form, make it difficult to believe that it is possible.
“I am very happy with the team, with the work they are doing and with being able to finish the job myself. Even so, It’s harder than it seems, I want a greater distance“You have to work and there will be many opportunities for everyone because there are many careers left.”
He suggests with his words that, to really fight for the World Cup, there will have to be another improvement from McLaren, surely taking into account that Mercedes is preparing a package of improvements that will complicate things for all the other teams.
