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WEC champion owes success to Norris: 'He destroyed me'
For Max Verstappen, Lando Norris was a size too small, but the Briton did help another driver's success. Indeed, Ferdinand Habsburg has expressed that he owes his success to Norris.
Norris is partly responsible for forming a champion
Ferdinand Habsburg's was Norris' teammate at Carlin in Formula 3 for a couple of seasons, and he also competed against him in the Toyota Racing Series held in New Zealand.
In the Tomorrow's Motorsport podcast, the Austrian talked the importance of being the Briton's teammate earlier in his career. "You need the toughest competition in the world to become even remotely good. I needed Lando Norris as a teammate for two years to become a real driver."
"Without Lando, I don't think I would be a Le Mans winner or WEC champion. I wouldn't be a professional driver. That would not be the case," continued the 2021 Le Mans winner in the LMP2 category.
"I needed Lando to destroy me, to make me question my own physical abilities and really dig deep and go testing. When I was testing, getting out of the car, scratching my head because I got beaten by two seconds in the wet. And you're like, this is just painful. It was painful and I needed it," the current Alpine WEC driver concluded.
This article was written in collaboration with Sandy van Wijngaarden
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