Lando Norris hailed as ‘potentially the best of his generation’ by Nico Rosberg


Lando Norris hailed as ‘potentially the best of his generation’ by Nico Rosberg

Lando Norris

Lando Norris may end up being the finest of the existing generation of young F1 talents, according to Nico Rosberg. Given that Norris is competing against defending Formula One World Champion Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, and George Russell, all of whom are within a few years of the McLaren driver’s age, that is quite a statement from the former World Champion.

Each member of those quartet will aspire to finally create their own era of domination in Formula 1, much like Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton did at various points during the previous ten years. Verstappen is 63 points ahead in his pursuit for back-to-back Drivers’ titles, so it could be said that he is now on his way to accomplishing this.

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Nico Rosberg is in awe of Lando Norris

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“He is one of the best of the next generation and potentially the best. I think in this case, more than bashing Daniel at this point in time we should just praise Lando, who is driving absolutely like a future World Champion,” said the 2016 Formula One World Champion about the young Briton.

Norris sees dominant drivers throughout the history of Formula One and feels privileged to be pitted against 7-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton. “You always hear the stories of when there was Ayrton Senna or Michael Schumacher and in this period it’s been Lewis. You hear about the battles he’s had, and those guys had with [Alain] Prost and [Nigel] Mansell. In 20 or 30 years’ time it will be the same about Lewis racing Seb and Max,” added Rosberg.

“Then somewhere there’s my name a bit further down…you take it for granted initially because you are doing your own thing, but in 30 years’ time that’s when you realise you were in a way lucky to be racing in that time,” concluded the German-Finnish former F1 driver.

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