F1: Alan Jones, very hard with Lando Norris

The 1980 champion and compatriot of Oscar Piastri, whipped the English and got his mental strength.

After its great start in Australia, Lando Norris bogged down in a string of errors that cannot leave. Perhaps the arrival of the Miami GP, where this weekend the fifth date of the season will be played, managed to get it out of the labyrinth in which he got into alone. In the Florida layout was where he achieved his first victory in F1 in the 2024 edition, it can be a good opportunity to redirect the course. His errors joined the self -destructive statements of English, who insulted and recriminated the failures. As it happened when crashing at the beginning of the Saudi Arabia Q3: “I am an idiot. I have the best car, I should be in pole, I am disappointed. I should not take absurd risks as it seems that I have done,” he said in Jeddah. Those mistakes and their psychological fissures were used by Oscar Piastri, his partner in the Woking Team, to win three races of the last four and reach Miami as leader of the World Cup, with ten points of advantage over Lando.

Alan Jones, Formula 1 champion in 1980 with Williams, was consulted by Norris’s walk and was lapidary In statements that the Australian media The Advertiser: “The first person you have to overcome is your partner. Piastri can achieve this this year, without a doubt. In the end, his partner is weak,” Jones shot, who shared Grove’s team with Carlos Reutemann.

The Australian attack continued: “His partner is quite fast, there is no doubt about that. But mentally, I think he is quite weak. He is saying all those nonsense that he has a mental problem, he focuses on some of his problems instead of positive aspects. When they begin to say all those nonsense, you already have it.”

Norris is expected to respond to Jones’s sayings this Thursday, during the press service day. Meanwhile, he will try to shine again as he did in 2024 in Miami, when he stopped being called Lando No Wins (Lando does not win). McLaren has the best car at this time, but it will be necessary to see if it lasts for the whole year because the rivals will start working to shorten the gap. It is the time when English must bring out its talent to think about the chance of the title.