While throbbing what will be the return to the circuit in which he won his first Grand Prix of Formula 1 in 2024, Lando Norris spoke of the change in mentality he had to experiment to be fighting for the championship with Max Verstappen and his partner Oscar Piestri.
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“I am a pilot who really has to feel it to believe it. Do I have to think that I can win the race? Yes. Do I go to the track thinking that I am going to win it? No. But my first victory in Miami last year gave me that mentality to say: ´Okay, I can win a race in F1 and beat Verstappen ”, The former championship pointer explained, now second to 10 piastri points.
In addition, he revealed what prevented him from finishing in the first position and how he could correct those internal errors: “There were voices inside me that I could eliminate when I led the race or left the pole and they told me: ´No ruins it now! ´. It is not the biggest change, but being able to get rid of them helps you concentrate a little more. ”
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Finally, he highlighted the importance of the final stretch of the last championship and how that helped him develop his new mentality: “They were my first disputes with the best in the world, that helped me to feel that new pressure and learn to deal with it. Thanks to that, I started working on myself and being able to understand me a little more. ”
“I was always quite demanding with myself, because I download in me what I do not download with my team, my mechanics, my set-up, my car. I always blame me more than I can blame an external factor. Well, that is, in reality, my way of being, ”concluded the British.
