{"id":117429,"date":"2025-09-04T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117429\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:00:08","slug":"max-verstappen-urges-lando-norris-to-put-2025-formula-1-dutch-grand-prix-dnf-out-of-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117429\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen urges Lando Norris to put 2025 Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix DNF out of his mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen has stated that Lando Norris needs “to keep working hard” and put the disappointment of retiring from the Dutch Grand Prix behind him if he is to stand a chance at this year’s title.<\/p>\n

Norris<\/a> and McLaren<\/a> team mate Oscar Piastri<\/a> have been locked in a battle for the Drivers’ Championship all season, with just nine points separating the pair heading to Zandvoort last weekend.<\/p>\n

Norris was shadowing his team mate throughout Sunday’s race until the closing stages when he suffered a mechanical problem that forced him to retire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With Piastri claiming his seventh win of the season, Norris now trails his title rival by 34 points<\/a> with just nine races of the season remaining.<\/p>\n

After finishing second at his home event, Verstappen was asked how easy it was to pick himself up from setbacks in his own title battles, particularly in 2021<\/a> when the Dutchman fought Lewis Hamilton for the title.<\/p>\n

During that season, Verstappen suffered a high-speed puncture in Baku when leading, and also recorded non-scores at Silverstone and Monza after collisions with Hamilton.<\/p>\n

“I mean, it\u2019s out of your control. So, you just need to keep working hard, keep trying to win,” said Verstappen.<\/p>\n

“As simple as that. Especially when you are team mates, you have the same car, same opportunities. It\u2019s probably a little bit more complicated than when it\u2019s two different teams, but still a lot of races and you can see things can swing.<\/p>\n

“You don\u2019t know if you [will] get a mechanical failure or not, it\u2019s out of your control. So yes, it\u2019s not ideal, but there are enough races to either turn it around or not, and time will tell.”<\/p>\n

While Piastri has yet to retire from a race this season, finishing all 15 Grands Prix in the points, the Australian suffered a setback at the opening race in his home country after spinning off in the rain and believes nothing is guaranteed yet.<\/p>\n

“I need to keep pushing and try to win,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t say it’s a very comfortable margin, as we saw today, it can change with one DNF very, very quickly so this far out from the end of the year, it’s not a comfortable gap.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has stated that Lando Norris needs “to keep working hard” and put the disappointment of retiring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-117429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}