Nico Rosberg sent a message to 🦂Lando Norris and revealed how a sports psychologist helped his own career.

MওcLaren driver Norris was on pole position at last weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix but, after a first-lap battle with teammate Oscar Piastri, eventually left the door open for Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to win.

Norris has won his first two grands prix this season and is in a fight for the drivers’ championsh♎ip, 62 points behind leader Max Verstappen.

But Natalie Pinkhamꦿ assessed Norris 🐎on the Sky F1 podcast: “He is the first to say ‘I am not driving like a world champion should’. He is publicly self-critical.

“I feel that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy if you say ‘I am weak and I make mistakes’, tꦡhen you will make mistakes.

“You need to project the strongest sense of self, and𓄧 b🔯uy into that.”

2016 F1 champion Rosberg replied: “A sports 🦩psychologist will tell you that you need to believe꧂ what you say.

“I wrote a DM to Lando, because I thought my eꦚxperience might be interesting to him, because 🍸I’ve been through all that.

“For him, the glass is always🌊 half-empty rather than half-full.

“He is very a൩uth🌠entic which is lovely. But you can be authentic and be half-full.

“The best example was his qualifying lap. Lando puts it on pole then focuses his post-qualifyingℱ ♑talk on ‘I messed up my lap, I apologise to my team, I was down after Turn 1 and 2…’

“He could have sa♏id ‘most of the lap was perfect’. Both💧 are the truth.

“But he✱ decide♎d to focus on his mistake and the bad part, not the rest which was world-class.

“I would hope and encourage that he thi💃nks aℱbout that.

“His thoughts will remain half-empty. It’s the way he is, and it’s꧋ the way I am.

“You can have an impact if you adapt what you’re saying. If♏ you consciously adapt what you say, you can have a positive spiral, which🔥 impacts your thoughts.”

The use of a sports psychologist aided Rosberg in taking the final step in his F1 journey by becomiꦗng champion in his final season.

“I worked🦂 with a sports psychologist for 10 years, and really intensified it in the last year,” he said.

“It was a lot of effort, two hours of coaching and lear🌱ning every🔜 two days throughout the whole winter.

“It was more intense than the physical training.

🀅“It was incredibly demanding but so 🧸worthwhile and valuable.

“Beyond sport﷽, I learned so muc✱h and made so much progress.”