Lando Norris has just demonstrated why he will always be in the shadow of Max Verstappen with a very hard admission
The Red Bull pilot, Max Verstappen, arrives at the Canada Grand Prix knowing that he is at a penalty point to be suspended for a race, after hitting George Russell in the Spanish Grand Prix of F1.
The 27 -year -old Dutchman showed his irritable character again when things did not go well in Montmeló. Verstappen could not control his emotions by feeling harmed by his own team, when Red Bull erroneously indicated to give Russell’s fourth position in the last laps.
Red Bull wanted to act cautiously for fear that Verstappen would receive a sanction for leaving the track and obtaining advantage after using the escape of curve 1 after contact with Russell. However, I did not have to give in the position, so Verstappen hit Russell on Tour 64 of 66 of the Spain Grand Prix.
Verstappen received a penalty of 10 seconds and three penalty points for the clash, which raised to 11 points in the rolling period of 12 months. Red Bull fears that Verstappen receives a suspension for the Austria Grand Prix, after which he will lose two penalty points.
Lando Norris thinks that Max Verstappen has never done anything ‘inappropriate’ against him
Lando Norris knows very well what it is to compete against Verstappen when the Red Bull driver loses his head, as in his incident with the As de Mercedes, Russell, in the Grand Prix of Spain. Verstappen accumulated four of its 11 penalty points for incidents with the McLaren pilot in 2024.
Although Verstappen collided with Norris in the 2024 Austria Grand Prix, which forced the British to retire, Norris does not feel that the Dutchman has done anything “inappropriate” against him. Rather, Norris believes that Verstappen has made his life ‘very difficult’ and that he has every right to do so.
Norris declared BBC Sport: “I do not think he has done anything inappropriate towards me. He has competed against me in a very hard way, as he has the right to do. He has made his life very, very difficult at times. And he has the right to do so.
I have said many times that I have a lot of respect for Max. For the pilot who is, for the person who is, for what he always represents and for what he has achieved, his four world championships. That’s four more than me, and he has had many more victories than me.
I admire those statistics, those actions. But at the same time, each one does what he thinks is better. Each one does what he thinks is correct and competes for himself. Some may be more aggressive than others.
But we all have defects. I have them, maybe he too. I compete in the aggressive way that I believe correct, and he does the same. The commissioners are the ones who decide what is right and what is wrong. “
Lando Norris will always live in the shadow of Max Verstappen because he always believes that the Red Bull driver is right
Verstappen’s clash against Norris at the 2024 Austria Grand Prix cost him two penalty points, which will be the first two he will lose his current 11 on June 30. He will not lose more to the two points he received after forcing Norris to get out of the track at the 2024 City Grand Prix.
Verstappen’s wrashing actions against Norris in the Grand Prix of Mexico last year were very similar to Verstappen’s unfortunate decision to collide Russell during the 2025 Grand Prix of Spain. However, Norris praises him and says that Verstappen was in his right.
While Norris does not leave aside his friendship with Verstappen out of the track and consistently question the driving of the Dutch race, the 25 -year -old British will always live in his shadow. Incidents in Mexico in the 2024 season should have taught that.
In fact, the signs that Norris still lives in the shadow of Verstappen were in the 2024 City Grand Prix, when the British stayed behind the Dutchman after being forced to get out of the track twice, knowing that Verstappen faced two penalties of 10 seconds. That cost Norris the victory for 4,705 seconds against Carlos Sainz.
