Lando Norris: I’ll fight to take Max Verstappen to the wire for F1 championship

Lando Norris said he was ready to defy the naysayers by taking Max Verstappen to the championship wire.

Norris will head to this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix – the final round before Formula One’s summer shutdown – 76 points behind Verstappen after he was forced by McLaren to surrender victory to Oscar Piastri in Hungary.

Pole-sitter Norris lost the lead to Piastri at the start and despite moving ahead of the Australian at the second round of pit stops, was controversially ordered to make way for his team-mate.

A first 1-2 for @McLarenF1 since Italy 2021