Lando Norris is sitting in the temporary McLaren hospitality unit sucking on a lollipop. With each passing second, he draws harder on the candy in his mouth. He’s not enjoying it especially, but it is a method of taking out his frustration at having been wiped out of the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix by Max Verstappen.
As Norris sat there seething over his inability to overtake the Red Bull driver cleanly and go on to win the race, there is also a sense that somewhere in the red mist was a settling notion that he now knew what he needed to do to take on the reigning world champion.
