If Norris could match or beat Ricciardo, it would be the making of him. Is he going to beat me in every single qualifying [and] race of the season?. “My confidence has definitely come up now in how I feel like I’ve performed,” Norris says. One race on from the Australian’s victory at Monza, Norris was outstanding in Russia. “If it didn’t rain any more, I’m 99.999% sure I would’ve won the race. But Norris has generally found a way to get the best out of it. “It’s been very cool to get to know them a bit more,” Norris says. “It’s something obviously a lot of drivers do,” he says.

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