Lando Norris joked that Max Verstappen should go into comedy after the Red Bull driver claimed he would have won this year’s F1 world title sooner if he was driving in a McLaren. Verstappen sealed his fourth successive world championship in Las Vegas last weekend, with Norris now unable to catch him with two rounds remaining in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

Lando Norris has rubbished Max Verstappen’s claim that he would’ve won the F1 world championship 'sooner' if he drove a McLaren. Norris, 25, could not stop Verstappen, 27, from clinching his fourth successive F1 world title at the Las Vegas Grand Prix last Sunday.

Lando Norris has dismissed as “comedy” a reported claim by Max Verstappen that he could have secured the Formula 1 title earlier if he’d had the same McLaren car as Norris, his closest challenger

It was only in Miami, where Norris took the first win of his Formula 1 career, that anything amounting to a “title fight” kicked off. His McLaren team had brought a comprehensive slate of upgrades to the Miami International Autodrome, and they worked much better than anyone had anticipated.

Verstappen has eight victories to his name this season, five more than Norris, though should he fail to win another race, he will be the champion with the fewest victories in a season since 2012, when

Lando Norris believes his McLaren team were simply “not ready” to win an F1 drivers’ championship this year after Max Verstappen sealed the title in Las Vegas. Verstappen finished fifth, a spot above Norris, in Sin City and now has an unassailable lead in the drivers’ championship with two races left.

Lando Norris disagrees with Max Verstappen’s belief he would have won the Formula One world championship earlier had he been driving a McLaren, saying the Dutchman “should start doing comedy or something.

While the savage intra-team fights at McLaren and Ferrari played a major role in deciding the 2024 F1 title fight, defeated challenger Norris reckons there are ways Verstappen’s lack of challenge from

Fernando Alonso wonders if he would be able to make life more difficult for Max Verstappen if he was able to compete for the World Championship titles in Formula 1. The two-time World Champion praised the Dutchman,