Lando Norris has that joked Max Verstappen should start doing comedy after refuting the Red Bull drivers claim that he would have won the world championship for McLaren, Afrosport reports.
After clinching his fourth consecutive world championship in Las Vegas last weekend, Verstappen asserted he would have also taken the title if he drove Norris’s McLaren.
Red Bull started the season in dominant fashion but McLaren have been the team to beat for much of the year. Despite that, Verstappen’s eight wins are five more than what Norris has racked up for McLaren.
Speaking ahead of this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix, Norris said: “He should start doing comedy or something. He can say whatever he wants.
“Of course, I completely disagree, as I would. He’s good, but, yeah, it’s not true.”
He added: “…There’s a lot of things that Max can do that are phenomenal, driving at the level he does consistently without a teammate that can push him in any way certainly doesn’t makes his life harder from that perspective, or from a team perspective.
“But at the same time there is no pressure, he doesn’t have to deal with trying to beat someone in his own team and that comes with some comfort. But they go together and in some ways I like having a bit of pressure because it makes me do a better job…”
McLaren are bidding to win their first constructors’ world title since 1998 and are 24 points clear of Ferrari in the standings with two races remaining.
