“And that’s not an over-confident saying, that’s… I do know I made my errors, I do know what I’m able to doing, and I do know if I can enhance on this stuff it’s positively attainable, so I’m excited. As a lot as I need this season now to finish and I need to go have a vacation, I’m additionally actually wanting ahead to subsequent 12 months.”
Norris later elaborated additional on the performances that he had discovered probably the most from in 2024, with the 25-year-old citing a number of of his on-track duels with Verstappen.
“Truthfully, it is in all probability the more durable moments that are those you study probably the most [from],” he defined. “So it is sort of true what folks say. However these more durable instances, my battles with Max, that sort of factor, sure different instances all through the season…
“I’ve positively stepped it up at a very good degree this season. I clearly misplaced out on a couple of issues, and there have been possibly three begins this 12 months which misplaced me one or two positions at instances. However they have been positions very often simply to Max, or it was Budapest and one to Oscar [Piastri] and little issues like that.
“However none of them, once I look again on them, made me really feel like, ‘properly, I’ve not received what it takes’. These moments solely got here when it was instantly towards Max. And it is Max – going up towards Max in any state is all the time going to be difficult, and nobody has a pleasant time racing Max.
“I feel Mexico was a little bit of a turning level when it was proved that not the whole lot he does is ideal. I feel if all of us return to Austin and return to Flip 12, the vast majority of – [or] nearly everybody on the grid – as drivers and likewise externally, disagreed with the very fact I received the penalty. We both each mustn’t have gotten one or we each ought to have gotten one.
