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'races like the são paulo gp show everybody why lando norris is a world champion' jolyon palmer's piece on why lando's win in brazil was one of his best ever wins 🤍 "seven seconds was wiped out and then antonelli made a mistake whilst suffering with a lack of warm-up, spinning out of the race lead. that was as a result of norris' pressure and it's always so tricky as a driver to navigate that." "you need to push hard to generate the tyre temperatures to give you the grip to go fast, but the harder you push, the easier it is to make mistakes that can be so costly." "that knife edge balancing act is one of the toughest skills for drivers, especially when there is a race win up for grabs. mclaren helped norris with the timing of his pit stop compared to antonelli and lando did the rest." "the question then became what would the red bulls do in pursuit and as it turned out, neither isack hadjar nor max verstappen had an answer for norris' pace." "verstappen ended up fighting his way up to p2 at the flag from 21st on the grid, but ironically i'm not sure whether he could have finished higher than second even if he had started from towards the front." "there's no doubt it was another superb fightback from max, something he is making a habit of in brazil, but actually once he got clear of antonelli he was no match for lando either." "it does show though how complete this drive was from norris. having lost out at the start, he had the measure of everybody in the field for the remainder of the race and no matter what weather conditions were thrown at him, he kept it clean, and was the fastest man with the most to lose." "he may be merely an outsider in the battle to be runner-up this year, but races like the sao paulo grand prix show everybody why lando norris is a world champion."