Lando Norris's father Adam believes the McLaren driver is the one to take the fight to runaway F1 championship leader Max Verstappen. The Briton finished second at the British Grand Prix, making the most of McLaren's major upgrade package to impart himself on the race for best of the rest. Norris has been tipped as a potential World Champion, though has been set back by the Woking-based outfit's inability to build on the positive foundations laid in the 2021 campaign that saw him secure a first pole position at the Russian Grand Prix, where he narrowly missed out on a maiden victory. Verstappen has been untouchable this season with only Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez breaking his streak of victories, with the Dutchman racing out to a 99-point lead over the Mexican after just 10 races. Speaking after Norris had pressurised the two-time champion in the early stages of the Silverstone event, Norris Sr told the F1 Nation podcast: "I was 50-50 on whether he [Lando] would ever get into F1 on the day he signed his contract. "It is that difficult to get in and for things to go the wrong way, so I didn't know. "He showed signs of promise when he was really young. He was always fast, ridiculously fast, so he will be able to take it to Max. "I think he is the one to beat Max."
We will go for first
Verstappen suggested Norris was too kind to him when offering no defence into Brooklands on lap five of the race, having taken the lead into the first corner. But his father explained: "Lando knew he wasn't going to keep first so he wanted to make sure he would finish the race properly, rather than wasting time and destroying his tyres. "Getting second is great, later in the year we will go for first and there will be a right time and right place to go it."
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