‘It’s still on’: Lando Norris insists he can battle Max Verstappen for F1 crown

(L-R): Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, McLaren racing director Randy Singh and Lewis Hamilton on the podium at Hungaroring. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

Lando Norris has insisted he is in the Formula One world championship fight with Max Verstappen and believes his McLaren team is well placed to take the competition to the wire, despite team orders denying him victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Norris’s teammate, Oscar Piastri, took his debut F1 win in Budapest with a superb drive, but the final third of the race was marked by ­McLaren’s team orders. When Piastri was leading the team pitted Norris before the Austra­lian, concerned that any problem at the stop may cost them a potential one- two. When Piastri then stopped, Norris took the lead on fresher tyres.