Lando Norris was perhaps as dominant as he has ever been in Formula 1, as he took back the championship lead via his half-a-minute victory at the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Ensuring that he did not relinquish the race lead at the start, holding both Ferraris and Max Verstappen at bay during the near kilometre-long race to the first turn, the McLaren was in a league of one, and left the attention to the battles behind him.
Although it is without question that Norris’ superb weekend was aided by his McLaren’s pace-setting machinery, equally so is the fact that he revelled on a weekend in which the pressure was on him. With Max Verstappen chipping away at both Norris, and his teammate Piastri, and having not won a race this side of the summer break, the Brit needed to seize the initiative and did so.
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But, entering the stadium section after the race had finished, the new points leader was met by jeers from the crowd. However, he responded to those jeers and told Sky Sports F1: “People can do what they want, honestly. They have the right to do it if they want to do it. I think that’s sport sometimes.
“I don’t know why I can’t stop laughing when I get booed. I think it makes it more entertaining for me. So yeah, they can keep doing it if they want. Of course, you don’t want it. I prefer to have people cheer for me. It was the same in Monza and a few other places.”
"Beautiful weekend" 🧡
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It was indeed an impressive weekend in Mexico City for Lando Norris! 👏#F1 #MexicoGP pic.twitter.com/096Ty6nb0x
Norris leads the championship by a single point over teammate Oscar Piastri, who he has not finished a race behind since after the Brit parked his car at the side of the track during the closing stages of the Dutch Grand Prix.
However, that hardly means that the momentum lies firmly with him, given that Max Verstappen is only 36 points away, and Piastri is right on the Brit's heels. Plenty of points will be on offer ahead of next week’s race, at Interlagos, where Norris famously started from pole but progressively saw the chance of winning slip from his fingers in the pouring rain.
But with the Australian driver on the back foot, and Norris now having the measure of him on pace, he will hope that a maiden world championship crown can be won.