‘Next year will be my year’ - Lando Norris fires bold warning to Max Verstappen

Lando Norris makes F1 title claim for 2025, writes Lewis Larkam in A𝕴bu Dhabi.

Lando Norris
Lando Norris

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris has fired an F1 title warning shot at Red Bull and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen by boldly proclaiming that “next year’s going to be my yeꦅar”.

The McLaren driver missed out on the 2024 drivers’ world title to Verstappen, but his fourth victory of the campaign at the season-endi𒁃ng Abu Dhabi Grand Prix helped McLaren secure their firstꦜ constructors’ championship in 26 years.

After being informed McLaren had won their fir𝔍st constructors’ crown since 1998 after leading Suꦜnday’s race from start to finish, Norris confidently stated over team radio: “Next year’s going to my year, too”.

Speaking dur𓄧ing the pa🌱rc ferme interviews, Norris added: “This [2025 title] is my goal. This is our goal as a team. We want to win the constructors’. We want to win the drivers’ next year.

“I made my mistakes this ꧋year,🐻 but I've learned a lot, and I've learned a lot from Max and my competitors around me.

“As much as I'm happy now, I'm excited to get next year going𒁃.”

Norris ‘believes in myself more’

McLaren celebrate winning the constructors' title
McLaren celebrate winning the constructors' title

Norris feels he is now much better positioned to challenge for a world championship after learning crucial les🧔sons during his first experience of being in an F1 title fight this year.

“One thin🌼g I've learned this year is probably to believe in myself a bit more,” Norris said.

“I've certainly not come out on top as often as I would ꦚhave liked in certain moments as a driver, you know, especially inꦗ my fights against Max.

“As much as it hurts sometimes, I'm probably happy about it now that I'm going to go into next season knowing that I can fight. And I know myself, and I know more and better than anyone what I need to improve on, where Iꦛ'm not strong enough, where I'm strong enough.

“You know, I'm always open for criticism, things like that. But I'm the one who knows better than the others, rig💖ht? So not in an arrogant way or a selfish way, but I know that I have to improve in a lot of areas and certain things. And I feel like I've already done that quite a lot in the last three, four, five races. I feel like I've delivered some very strong results.

And the Briton is confident McLarenꦛ will head into next season as potential favourites after transforming into the fastest team in F1 in 2024.

“Next yeaཧr is hopefully a year where I can go in and decide before the first race we're going to fight for a championship,” he added.

“We've not ever thought of that. We've not even had the feeling of it from a tꦇeam perspective and also for me as a d𓆏river. So hopefully the next year is that year. And we obviously have a lot of work to do. And Ferrari are going to be pushing a lot.

“But that's another year. For now, I'm just going to celebrate wit🌟h my team tonight and celebrate what they deserve.” 

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