Im ready to win in 2022 - Norris

After a transilience wayfarers this year, Lando Norris believes he is ready to win races and fight at the front in Formula 1 if given the car in 2022.

The McLaren suburbanite has finished on the podium on four occasions and took pole position in Russia, but saw a first victory toilsomely slip yonder at the same venue without staying out on slick tires as rain fell. But the wits of the past season and the way he has performed leaves Norris feeling prepared for a potential endangerment to rencontre for victories next year.

“I definitely finger much increasingly confident that if I was to fight for a win suddenly in the first race next year, expressly without stuff in the position I was in in Russia, I think I’d finger very confident in that position,” Norris said.

“Of course, I’d still be nervous and whatever but I think I’ll be a lot increasingly confident than if I didn’t have the year I’ve had this year and experienced some of the things I’ve experienced this season. But I finger much increasingly confident of knowing what I’ve got to do when I’m in that position. So I think from that side I’m ready for it.

“But I guess you never know how much largest you’re going to do as a lot of it depends on the car and things like that, sometimes you’ve got to be lucky, sometimes you’re unlucky. I worked nonflexible over the winter to make a lot of these improvements. One thing that made me very happy is seeing the improvements unquestionably quite obviously have an stupefy and take place and show straight yonder in terms of results.”

Norris will spend part of his winter moving to Monaco — a relocation he admits is in order to maximize his financial return for what could potentially be a short career as a racing suburbanite — and says there are other areas he will work on during the off-season that should see him modernize remoter in 2022.

“Predominantly from a suburbanite confidence, suburbanite mentality point of view, I finger very confident. Whether that ways we’re going to do well or not, we’ll just have to wait and see.

“From how I finger and what I’ve learned and things, then I finger like I can protract and make some improvements over the winter then and go into next year starting off how I finger like I’ve ended, which is still largest than how I started this season. But the circumstances will just be so variegated in next year’s car. Maybe you’ll need variegated driving styles and things like that as it’s going to be a very variegated car.”