Norris 'ready To Go' For 'tricky' Part Of Season

Dutch Grand Prix

Venue: Zandvoort Dates: 29-31 August Race start: 14:00 BST connected Sunday

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Lando Norris says he is "ready to go" for what he expects to beryllium "a long, tricky, challenging 2nd portion of nan season" arsenic Formula 1 resumes aft its summertime break.

The Briton trails his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by 9 points heading into this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix pinch nary different driver realistically successful nan fight.

Norris has won 3 of nan past 4 races, riding his luck astatine times, but dismissed nan thought that he had momentum successful nan championship.

He said: "The deeper meaning [of momentum] is does it springiness you much assurance and springiness you much knowledge and springiness you a amended mindset?

"Just nan truth of having 2 bully races doesn't mean I'm going to person a 3rd bully one."

There are 10 grands prix remaining successful nan season, which concludes successful Abu Dhabi successful December.

Briton Norris acknowledged that he had made mistakes astatine various points successful nan play that had affected his title chances.

He pin-pointed an correction nether braking for nan hairpin that costs him rod for nan sprint title successful China, which Piastri won and Norris vanished eighth, and moving into nan backmost of his team-mate successful Canada.

There were others, too, including a clang successful qualifying successful Saudi Arabia and losing places connected nan first thigh successful Miami by moving disconnected way trying to walk Max Verstappen's Red Bull.

Norris said: "Could I person astatine times made possibly amended decisions? I deliberation so.

"I wouldn't opportunity I regret it. But do I wish I could do it amended and do it again, yeah. But I don't regret making those decisions astatine nan time. That's life.

"Sometimes it goes your measurement and you get fortunate and sometimes it goes nan different measurement and you don't make nan champion decisions but those are nan times you study nan most."

Norris acknowledged besides that different events had played a portion successful his shortage not being bigger than it is.

This is simply a reference to Piastri losing nan wins astatine Silverstone and Hungary. In Silverstone, nan Australian received a arguable punishment for braking down nan information car, and successful Hungary Norris was capable to retrieve from a bad commencement by switching to a one-stop strategy mid-race that moreover he astatine nan clip did not deliberation would get him nan win.

Norris said: "I person surely had a small spot of luck. I person besides been unlucky. But that is life. I can't alteration those things.

"This twelvemonth I've had a car that I've recovered a batch trickier to thrust but I person made immoderate bully steps guardant to travel backmost and amended and I would not person won successful Budapest if I had not improved successful that way.

"I person besides made bully decisions and kept myself retired of trouble, stuck by nan rules. All those things are portion of being a racing driver and astatine times they person gained maine points. That's down to maine doing a bully occupation astatine times."

Piastri would beryllium starring nan title by 37 points if he had won successful Silverstone and Budapest alternatively than Norris.

But he said: "I surely don't consciousness difficult done by.

"There's ever going to beryllium things successful racing that you don't needfully work together pinch aliases don't spell nan measurement you want and that's conscionable portion of it. Sometimes it makes you wonderment wherever you tin conscionable separator forward.

"We've done a batch of things good that we tin power this year. There's been immoderate reliable moments and reliable lessons, but I'm very assured pinch nan position that I'm in.

"I consciousness for illustration I've driven good this year. So yeah, location is an alternate beingness wherever a batch of things look very different, but nary of that matters."

Both drivers said nan squad would proceed pinch their argumentation of allowing them to title each other, including nan action of picking different strategies.