Lando Norris said he wants to win the world championship in style — despite admitting his advantage at the top of the standings puts him in \u201ccontrol\u201d of the title race.<\/p>\n
Norris is 24 points clear of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri and 49 ahead of Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen with 83 points left as the Formula 1 season reaches its climax.<\/p>\n
The British driver can now afford to finish second to Piastri at all of the concluding three races of the year — starting at this weekend\u2019s Las Vegas Grand Prix — and still seal his maiden crown.<\/p>\n
But Norris said: \u201cWhat has served me so well recently is by going flat out, staying out of trouble and the chaos behind.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s almost a safer bet. So protecting my championship lead is not the right mindset to have.<\/p>\n
\u201cI come here to win. I\u2019ll go to the next race in Qatar to win. I will still treat it as if I\u2019m not in a championship and that\u2019s the mentality I\u2019ll have.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, I feel a little bit more in control, but nothing changes because of whatever points I\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n
Norris was 34 points behind Piastri when his engine expired at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort on the final day of August.<\/p>\n
But he has arrived for Saturday\u2019s night race on the Strip as the grid\u2019s in-form driver with successive victories from pole position in Mexico and Brazil.<\/p>\n
Quizzed as to the turning point behind his campaign, Norris, who turned 26 last week, said: \u201cIt is hard not to do a better job than I was doing at the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a very strong group of people around me to support me, to direct me and help me whether I have had a good weekend or a bad weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m also more positive and less negative about when I have bad days and bad sessions. And I believe in myself that I can turn it around. I\u2019ve done that a good amount of times now, and that\u2019s a very reassuring feeling that I need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen is bidding to emulate Michael Schumacher by winning five consecutive titles, but, while he mathematically remains in the contest, he is the equivalent of two wins behind Norris.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a long way behind, and there is not a lot I can do,\u201d said Verstappen. \u201cWe need a lot of luck until the end, so personally I am not thinking about it too much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris said he wants to win the world championship in style — despite admitting his advantage at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,86971,576,577,132995,82],"class_list":["post-294960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-sports-auto-racing-league-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris-sports-auto-racing-player-player-statscom-1135155","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}