Norris comes of age
“You must do very well in your first year. But the level of delivering at 100% in every single race, this comes a bit later. You have the best examples with drivers that have been spending more than two, three years with the same team.”
That’s how Carlos Sainz Jr views a driver’s progression timeframe at a new Formula 1 team. He should know. After all, he’s raced for nearly half of the current grid. But he also knows one of the three drivers who made their F1 debuts in 2019, and this year entered the key year-three test he outlines very well: Lando Norris.
The pair’s friendship has endured Sainz departing McLaren for Ferrari at the end of last year. The Spaniard has gone on to show excellence against superstar-in-waiting Charles Leclerc, while Norris made a new pairing with proven F1 race winner Daniel
