2025-09-01 11:05:31
Lando Norris has vowed to take his retirement from the Dutch Grand Prix “on the chin”.
The British driver’s hopes of winning a first F1 world title suffered a significant blow during Sunday’s (31.08.25) race at Zandvoort after he suffered a mechanical failure whilst running in second place in the closing stages of the Grand Prix but he conceded that he was simply “unlucky” with the problem.
Norris told reporters: “[I] just want to go have a burger and go home. It wasn’t my fault, so there’s nothing I can really do. It’s just not my weekend. A little bit unlucky yesterday with the wind [in qualifying] and unlucky today. Tough one. Of course, it’s frustrating. It hurts a bit for sure in a championship point of view. It’s a lot of points to lose so quickly and so easily.
“That’s life, so that’s why I just take it on the chin and move on.”
The racer now trails McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by 34 points at the top of the championship and accepts that it will take a lot to turn the situation around.
Norris said: “The only thing I can do is try to win every race. That’s going to be difficult but I’ll make sure I give it everything I can.
“I have a good team-mate, he’s strong, he’s quick in every situation, every scenario. It’s hard to get things back on someone who is just good in pretty much every situation. It certainly hasn’t helped. It’s a lot of points to lose so quickly and so easily.
“Nothing I can control now, just take it on the chin and move on. But it’s almost a big enough gap now that I can just chill out about it and just go for it.”
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