Lando Norris has stated that his commanding victory at the Mexico City Grand Prix, which propelled him back to the top of the F1 world championship standings, holds no significant long-term meaning unless he can achieve “two, three, or four consecutive wins.”
This Sunday, Norris broke Oscar Piastri`s 189-day reign at the pinnacle of the Drivers` Championship by securing a win with the season`s widest margin. His McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, finished fifth.
With this outcome, Norris now leads Piastri by a slim one-point margin in the championship. Max Verstappen of Red Bull remains a contender, 36 points adrift, with four race weekends remaining in the season.
Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 world champion and Sky Sports F1 pundit, remarked that Norris`s decisive victory demonstrated a “strength typically associated with Max Verstappen.”
Norris acknowledged that his performance in Mexico marked “one of his best weekends all season.” However, given a year where he has struggled to consistently maximize the potential of his McLaren MCL39 car, he remains grounded and is not getting overconfident about this impressive result.
When asked if he had experienced self-doubt earlier in the season, especially after recurrent errors in qualifying – traditionally his strong suit – had hindered his challenge against Piastri, Norris responded, “I definitely did [doubt myself], as I never want to fault my car.”
He added that when the car was performing well and Oscar was winning, “the last thing I could do was blame the car for not being good enough.”
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