Sky F1 expert Martin Brundle believes Lando Norris’ “lack of experience” competing for the World Championship has cost him against Max Verstappen in F1 2024.

and fear the McLaren The star “lacks the killer instinct” needed to take on the “pretty brutal” Verstappen and triumph.

Martin Brundle questions Lando Norris’ ‘killer instinct’

Norris He looked set to take away a big chunk of Verstappen’s F1 2024 points lead at Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix, having secured a pole position at Interlagos, as his title rival could only manage 17th place. on the grill.

However, Norris dropped to a distant sixth in the race as Verstappen charged through the order to claim one of the most impressive victories of his F1 career.

Verstappen’s first grand prix win since the Spanish GP on June 23 means he has a massive 62-point lead heading into the final three races in Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

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With Verstappen potentially set to be crowned World Champion for the fourth time when the season resumes in Las Vegas later this month, Brundle is convinced Norris will learn a lot from his experience in competing for big honors this season.

he said Sky Sports News: “”It is about (improving) everything to the level it is at.

“He’s had some incredible wins not least at Zandvoort and Singapore where he just ran away and hid, a bit like Max (sometimes he dominates).

“But he lacks the experience to compete for a World Championship and I think it’s a whole new set of challenges and rules, and that’s what he will learn this year.

“Sometimes you wonder if he lacks the killer instinct compared to Max, who we know can be quite brutal in combat.

“But I think Lando will learn a lot from this season. And Max winning seven of the first 10 races really put him out of reach.”

Although McLaren has had the faster car for much of this season, Norris has struggled to consistently close the gap to Verstappen.

Brundle feels that in retrospect it was too big a ask for Norris to catch up to Verstappen, who started the season with seven wins in the first 10 races despite Red Bull’s poor form.

And he believes Verstappen is almost certain to win a fourth consecutive crown in the coming weeks, with Norris now depending on an almost unprecedented series of events.

When told that Norris was 84 points behind Verstappen at one point in F1 2024, Brundle said: “If you add all that up, Lando needed to take a huge amount of points off Max every race and hope his team was there.” -mate and a Ferrari or two, and even a Mercedes or two, between them.

“But one change of course, like in Brazil, and that little escape is largely over, unless a lot of strange things happen now in the final races.”

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