It’s a crucial weekend for Lando Norris. As the chances to keep the tittle fight open faded after a poor Brazilian Grand Prix that saw him drop from pole to finish sixth. It was a tough week, admits the McLaren driver. A time to wrap up an incredible season and lots of lessons to learn.
“Post-Brazil was a tough time for me because it was the first moment, realistically when I thought it was tough to achieve first position now. My real fight for the title was slimmed by the most points of the year, a tricky one but my approach has been correct.

“I kind of know the position I’m in now and I have less to lose now, the gap to Max is – for the first time – probably when I’ve looked at the gap myself and had the realisation of where things stand.

“My approach has been the right approach for the last few weekends, I have been performing well and doing a good job – so I can’t change anything, but I think I can go out and enjoy it a little bit more.”

Lessons learned
Despite seeing his title aspirations disappear, Norris feels he has at least proven to himself he can compete at the very front of the field.
“We learned a lot and we can say that we have what it takes. It is the first time in the last six years of Formula 1 when we have had a chance to fight at the front.

“This is our, and my, first opportunity to do so and my first opportunity to see where I stand.

Winning Mindset 
Embody  thev ability to fight constantly at the top comes with experience. you need to go through it.  “I definitely wasn’t at the level I needed to be at the beginning of the year and even at the Miami point of the season.
“Since the summer break, I feel like I have done a good job and performed very, very well, by far some of the best performances I have done. I wouldn’t change many things that have happened. I still need to make tweaks and improve on things, that is clear.

“For the first time, I am confident to say that I have what I think I need to fight for a championship. That doesn’t mean I’m complete or perfect that is for sure.

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