After an abandonment that costs him dearly this Sunday at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands, Lando Norris admitted that the abandoned points in Zandvoort will weigh in the title race against his teammate Oscar Piastri but does not intend to give up.
It was the dreaded scenario at McLaren. While Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are comfortably at the top of the pilot championship and ended towards a fifth consecutive double this Sunday at the Grand Prix du Netherlands, bad luck struck the British. As we approach the arrival, a mechanical breakdown ended the Espoirs de Second Place de Lando Norris and offered at the same time a first podium in Isack Hadjar.
While the Briton has entrusted to the magazine
Autosport That “the engine has simply stopped”, its boss Andrea Stella entrusted shortly after the race that the stable based in Woking “identified a problem on the chassis side”, including independent of the engine provided by Mercedes. With hindsight, Lando Norris admitted that “it was simply not (sound) weekend” after missing pole position for twelve thousandths of a second and then undergoing this mechanical problem. “It’s difficult, of course it is frustrating, it hurts a championship point of view,” said the one who is now 34 points behind his teammate.
Norris: “I’m going to give everything”
“This is a lot of points lost so fast and so easily,” he added before being a philosopher. I can’t do anything about it, so I take it as it comes and I move on to something else. But, while there are still nine great prices to play this season, Lando Norris is not ready to abdicate in the title race. “The only thing I can do is try to win all the shopping,” he said. It’s going to be difficult, but I’m going to give everything. »»
Nevertheless, he will have to deal with a teammate “fast in all situations”, which “does not help in the race for the title”. Lando Norris intends to draw from this situation from this situation. “It only makes me complicate the task and put me more under pressure, but the gap is now almost important enough for me to relax and simply go for it,” he concluded. However, he will need a boost after this 25-0 if he wants to succeed Max Verstappen at the world championship championship.
