Former team boss Eddie Jordan believes that Lando Norris is not yet on the same level as Max Verstappen. According to the Irishman, Norris ‘doesn’t have it yet’, after the driver made several mistakes during the São Paulo Grand Prix. The former team boss also has some advice for the McLaren driver.
While Max Verstappen powerfully drove from seventeenth to first place in the race, Lando Norris struggled more with the rain in São Paulo. The Brit lost his pole position already in the first turn, and was in fourth place after the red flag. The McLaren driver finished in sixth place. Verstappen was thus able to extend the points difference with Norris to 62 points, and only needs to finish ahead of the Brit in Las Vegas to secure his fourth world title.
Former F1 team boss Eddie Jordan sees Norris’s mistakes in São Paulo as signs that Norris is not really ready for a title fight with Verstappen. “Lando is not quite there yet,” says Jordan in the Formula for Success podcast. “He’s not there at the start, not during the pole position run to the turn. He has the speed, there’s no doubt about that. But there’s nothing in me that tells me that I’ve seen something in Lando that I saw in Max on Sunday. Nothing.”
Advice
The Irish former team boss also has some immediate advice for Norris for during the winter break. “Lando needs to take a good, hard look at himself this winter and tell himself: ‘If I want to become a great world champion, I still have a lot to learn here and I need to replay those videos about what it’s really like to be hard, strong and victorious.’ And I’m sorry, at the moment he doesn’t have that.
