Former team boss Günther Steiner offers advice to Lando Norris on how best to compete with title rival Max Verstappen. The two drivers last encountered each other on the track in Miami, after which Norris expressed his dissatisfaction with the reactions to his battle with the Dutchman. Steiner advises the Brit to approach this differently in the future.
Oscar Piastri remains at the top of the drivers’ championship after the Miami Grand Prix. However, the Australian needs to be cautious, as his teammate Lando Norris is only 16 points behind him. Max Verstappen is still a title contender, and in Miami, he first encountered Piastri and then Norris on the track.
The Brit had more difficulty overtaking the Dutchman than his teammate, and the two even went off the track together before Norris was able to pass Verstappen in lap 18. “With Max, it’s just crash or don’t overtake,” the driver reflected after the race. “If I engage in the battle, people complain. If I don’t go for it, people also complain, so you just can’t win.”
‘Focus on Yourself’
Former team boss Günther Steiner has heard Norris’s statements and advises the McLaren driver to approach things differently in the future. “Focus more on yourself, on what you want to do and not on what people say about you,” Steiner shares on the Red Flags podcast. “Don’t listen to all those opinions, just do your best.”
The Italian predicts that if Norris adjusts his approach, he will eventually collide with Max Verstappen. “At some point, he will crash into Max, but he just needs to gain the confidence to do that. He shouldn’t always be so influenced by things over which he has no control. After all, people can say what they want.”
“Lando knows he’s a good driver, he knows what he needs to do,” Steiner continues. “He’s just a bit shy, he doesn’t want to do anything negative. He should actually say: ‘This is how I want to race, and this is the way I think is right. If he then crashes into me and we crash, then so be it’.”
