LUSAIL, Qatar — Lando Norris disagrees with Max Verstappen’s belief he would have won the Formula One world championship earlier had he been driving a McLaren, saying the Dutchman “should start doing comedy or something.”

Lando Norris joked that Max Verstappen should go into comedy after the Red Bull driver claimed he would have won this year’s F1 world title sooner if he was driving in a McLaren. Verstappen sealed his fourth successive world championship in Las Vegas last weekend,

It was only in Miami, where Norris took the first win of his Formula 1 career, that anything amounting to a “title fight” kicked off. His McLaren team had brought a comprehensive slate of upgrades to the Miami International Autodrome, and they worked much better than anyone had anticipated.

McLaren driver Lando Norris has admitted his disappointment at falling short in the championship battle against Max Verstappen. Despite this, the Briton congrat

Lando Norris believes his McLaren team were simply “not ready” to win an F1 drivers’ championship this year after Max Verstappen sealed the title in Las Vegas. Verstappen finished fifth, a spot above Norris, in Sin City and now has an unassailable lead in the drivers’ championship with two races left.

Lando Norris has teased a Formula 1 absence after he hinted that he will link up with Max Verstappen on holiday. The McLaren star bid farewell to his world title dreams at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, where Verstappen finished above him in P5 and ended all mathematical possibility for Norris to claim the championship.

Lando Norris has admitted that his McLaren team were "not ready" to win this year's Formula One world title after Max Verstappen secured a fourth consecutive championship. The 25-year-old needed to out-score Verstappen by at least three points on Saturday night in order to keep his title hopes alive but after a far-from-convincing race,