McLaren driver feels title race ‘can easily go opposite way’
Norris unmoved by being booed after last two wins
For all the sound and fury of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Lando Norris is refusing to get excited about the prospect of putting one hand on a first drivers’ championship trophy in Sin City.
Norris leads his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by 24 points in the title race and Max Verstappen by 49 with a maximum of only 83 on the table over the three remaining meetings. But with the 26-year-old Briton having wrought an extraordinary comeback from 34 points behind Piastri after August’s Dutch Grand Prix, he is determined to focus on executing with the clinical calm that has put him into the lead in the standings, not the potential outcome of the race.
“It can easily just go the opposite way again as much as I don’t want it to,” he said. “That’s racing, you know. You can also have luck. You can also be unlucky. Whatever it may be. There’s really no point getting excited or thinking about it. I still do see it as something that’s quite distant.”
