Norris knows how to extract final 'few percent' in becoming a more complete driver

15:41, 18 Apr

byKada Sarkozi

After four rounds, Lando Norris leads the drivers' championship. Still, after some mistakes, the Briton is still very hard on himself. In Saudi Arabia, he underlined this is something he needs to work on.

Lando Norris finished in P3 at the Bahrain Grand Prix, starting from sixth position on the grid, while Oscar Piastri secured all 25 points after claiming pole position.

The British driver was harsh on himself especially after qualifying in Sakhir.

"It's a balance I think I'm clearly still trying to improve on. Such as this week trying to remind myself of the good things," he began about improving in this regard to GPblog among others.

"I do think of the bad stuff, the negative things more than I think of the positives. I have to get reminded that I'm leading the championship and that I won the first race and things like that, and I've been on the podium every race. I have to get reminded of them rather than just being able to remind myself. And I think from that attitude is probably something I need to improve and work on."

Norris believes this attitude got him to where he is right now as well. "I want to get the most out of every session. I want to achieve my potential. And at the minute I'm just not achieving my potential and there's no reason for me to be happy with that. I know I'm tough on myself, but for 95% of it I think it's a good thing and I think it's what makes me who I am, and makes me have a chance in Formula One, and be with McLaren, and be fighting for a world championship."

'Plenty to be happy about'

Still, Norris clearly underlined that in order to extract his full potential, he needs to work on this quality.

"But there is and I accept that there's probably the last few percent, which can be a very important few percent, where I probably say too many negatives and that gets into my own head and I don't think of the positives as much as I should."

He also underlined that ahead of the season, he would have been satisfied with what he achieved so far in 2025.

"On these journeys there's a lot of things that I would be so happy about. Starting the season off with how the first race in Australia went and achieving the podiums. Turning a bad weekend and still having a podium. There's so many things that I should be happy about I probably just don't remind myself enough of them and that's probably something the main area I would say that I need to improve on," the Briton concluded.