Lando Norris’s aggressive approach to battling the world champion, Max Verstappen, has received the backing of his McLaren team despite it likely costing the British driver a shot at victory at the Miami Grand Prix.
Norris started in second place behind Verstappen but was squeezed wide after trying to dive past the Red Bull through the turn one and two sequence, went off and dropped to sixth. The 25-year-old came back strongly passing Verstappen, with the McLaren clearly having an enormous pace advantage over the Red Bull, to claim second place behind his teammate, Oscar Piastri, who took a dominant win from fourth on the grid. Both McLarens ultimately finished more than 30 seconds in front of the third-placed Mercedes of George Russell, with Verstappen in fourth.
