Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen? Lando Norris put on the ‘spot’ with a tough question

The youngest driver on the grid, 22 year old, Lando Norris is known for sharing amiable relations with everyone in the circuit. However, it is to note that Lando and recently crowned World Drivers’ Champion Max Verstappen grew up together while competing at go-karting. They’ve shared quite the personal relationship.

A recent professional showdown which has made the rounds involving Max Verstappen and 7 time world championship winner Lewis Hamilton has the entire grid split in half regarding their opinion on who’s better.

Norris has always tried to avoid such controversial questions involving the drivers in the grid.

At McLaren’s MCL36 launch event, ESPN got hold of the British driver who extended his contract with McLaren till 2025. ESPN asked Norris to say who he prefers out of the two drivers who went head-to-head throughout the 2021 season which ended with Max Verstappen’s maiden championship win at the last race of the season at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Lando Norris has made his choice between Verstappen and Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton was leading the entire race until Williams Racing’s Nicholas Latifi’s car crashed which led to the deployment of the safety car and Masi decided to let the cars between Verstappen and Hamilton to unlap which gave Verstappen the edge to attack in the last lap and then go on to win the race and his first championship.

When confronted with the question, Norris initially seemed to let go of it and choose not to answer it but after a solid 25 seconds, he mustered the courage to tell ESPN, as quoted by GP Blog:”Verstappen“.

He also mentioned how Verstappen “is in the zone 24/7”. Lando Norris finished with an impressive 6th position in the driver’s championship in the last season with 160 points to his name.

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