Lewis Hamilton is a nine-time race winner at Silverstone whereas Lando Norris is eyeing his first British Grand Prix success forward of his house Method 1 race this weekend
Lando Norris admitted he’d fortunately swap all seven of his Method 1 race wins for a style of Silverstone glory. The McLaren title-chaser has victories in Miami, Melbourne and Monaco to his identify over the course of his profession so far.
However none of these wins would evaluate to the sensation of being the primary to take the chequered flag in entrance of his adoring house followers at Silverstone on Sunday. And the 25-year-old is eyeing back-to-back successes after beating team-mate Oscar Piastri in Austria final weekend.
Norris mentioned: “It’s robust to place one thing above Monaco but when I might swap all my race wins for one, it might be for a win right here, so that’s the plan. Profitable at Monaco and Silverstone is completely different.
“Monaco has the historical past, and it means a lot to win there, however Silverstone is my house race and the one which places the larger smile on my face. And since a child watching Method 1, it’s the one I’ve wished to win probably the most.”
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Norris is aware of he’s Britain’s finest hope of a house hero this weekend with McLaren dominant. However he additionally is aware of he has a protracted solution to go earlier than being the nation’s prime racing famous person with Lewis Hamilton a nine-time winner at Silverstone after his fairytale success right here final yr.
He mentioned: “From a British perspective, I’ve the most effective likelihood of profitable the race and naturally I’m the one that’s almost definitely to be preventing for the championship this season. Am I the British primary? I do not know. I do not understand how a lot you need to have in mind historical past. Should you do, then Lewis is kind of convincingly on the prime – he has much more wins, poles and championships than anybody else put collectively.
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“Being the British primary could be good, that is my purpose, the identical as it’s with any sportsman, whether or not it’s in tennis or golf, you wish to be the primary, however I’d say I have never confirmed myself to be there but. However it’s one thing I’m engaged on.”
Norris has by no means received back-to-back races in his F1 profession and admitted: “I would like that consistency and I have to show that to myself. The win provides you extra motivation and also you wish to really feel as if you should use your property race as a bonus and I hope that’s the case this weekend.”
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His important risk will once more be Piastri who insists he isn’t out for revenge regardless of the Brit’s victory in his hometown Melbourne in March. He mentioned: “I might be pleased to win anyplace. Silverstone is a monitor I’ve all the time loved and the group has all the time been really fairly good to me.
“However I am probably not involved about that, I am extra simply targeted on attempting to get one other win on the board. It is a particular race for me as properly. I’ve lived within the UK for a very long time, so it has been my form of second house race for fairly some time.”
