Lando Norris as the Master of Consistency. Will he win the race this year?

Lando Norris, the British McLaren driver, is the last driver of the season to score points in every race in 2021. In 7 out of 8 occasions, he has even finished in the top five. What is behind the young driver’s great performance? And does he have what it takes to win this year?

For Norris, this is his third season in the queen of motorsport, all of which have been driving for McLaren. And so far in 2021, he’s really captivating the Formula One public who have been watching his rise.

In the very first race of the season, he finished 4th in Bahrain. Three weeks later, he was celebrating his first podium of the year and the second of his career after last year’s Austrian VC.

The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, where Norris took third place, only served to highlight the rise of McLaren as a whole. The connection between driver and team is working perfectly in the case of the orange monoposts and the man with the number 4 on his car.

Norris added a second podium in 2021 on the treacherous streets of Monaco, but there he benefited mainly from the non-entry of Charles Leclerc and the retirement of Valtteri Bottas. And it is race situations like this that could one day hand McLaren a long-awaited victory.

The British team was far from that in last year’s Italian Grand Prix, where the then still Carlos Sainz chased the ultimately sensational winner Pierre Gasly to the last metres. It was here that those rare moments not normally seen in F1 racing occurred.

Both Ferraris out, Hamilton and his penalty on the restart, the end of Max Verstappen in the Red Bull. But let’s go back to Norris. the 21-year-old is currently fourth in the championship, ahead of even Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas.

His consistency has been proven by the results. As written above, only once has the Briton been outside the top five. That was in the fourth race of the season, when he finished “as high as” eighth in Spain. In general, however, the track in Barcelona did not suit McLaren and the points were a success.

The last three races saw three fifth places, extending the young Briton’s points streak to 13 Grands Prix. Norris is already being talked about as a future world champion and his results are starting to speak for themselves.

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