- Norris won the first race of the season but has not yet tasted victory since then
- He dropped 16 points behind the teammate Piastri in the pilot championship
- The Briton has now come out of social media in order to put his season on the right track
Lando Norris N ° 134 sports psychology lesson, entitled: Turn off your phone and save your mental health.
Sitting in the McLaren hospitality area, the British eyes are fixed on a screen showing the PGA championship. His arms are crossed while Rory McILroy is missing a 10 -foot for the peer. A sigh.
Golf, both playing and watching it, is a sanctuary for Norris far from his Formula 1 career which recently involved him to lose his lead in the pilot classification to the Oscar Piastri teammate.
Having won the opening race in Melbourne, Norris is now 16 points back. Piastri, on the other hand, won four of the last five and three last.
This reversal weighs on your confidence, the questions are asked and comments are disseminated.
Norris’s response? “I haven’t been on social networks for a few weeks now,” he says.
Lando Norris came out of social media to help bring back his world title on the right track
Norris won the first race of the season but has lagged behind the teammate Oscar Piastri (right) in the ranking
Australian Piastri also preceded Norris in practice for the Grand Prix of this weekend in Imola
“It’s just not something I love. I don’t need it. It’s my life. I can do what I like.
“I like not to go on my phone as much as before. I mean, I always use my phone and I send an SMS to my friends.
“But social media is a waste of time and my energy. I don’t need it, I don’t want it.
“I can’t find it interesting. I wouldn’t say that I feel better. I just feel like I have more time to do things I want to do.
“I want to spend time with my friends and go to play golf and train and do productive things.
In fact, his Instagram account was updated last Friday. But, in danger of letting magic enter, one of his devices may have affected this, not the 25-year-old Bristolian who wants to launch his renewal to Imola this weekend.
His car is well equipped to help it in this business. But in the first practice, Piastri preceded Norris 0.032sec. In the second, by 0.025 second.
The Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday is Lewis Hamilton’s first race for Ferrari in front of red shirt fans. Attention is both an inspiration and an intrusion.
Norris said he wanted to “spend time with my friends and go play golf and train and do productive things”
Sunday race, on the other hand, is the first of Lewis Hamilton for Ferrari in front of their red shirt fans
A screen protected Hamilton while he was heading yesterday about the team’s hospitality area at the garage. His teammate Charles Leclerc wandered freely, signing autographs on his happy path.
Like Norris, the seven times world champion has also taken evasive measures online. He has 39.5 million Instagram followers (9.9 m from Norris), but he has unsubscribed for everyone and everything since the last race in Miami, where he finished an eighth punch. He abandoned Ferrari, Leclerc and even his Bulldog Roscoe evil.
Are Likings a statement on his state of mind? The relevant history lies in the fact that he suffered his disciples last time after the deep despair of losing the title against Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi five seasons.
Ferrari will need a generous chance of luck here if they want to deliver their first 2025 victory, since Leclerc was only the sixth faster in practice and Hamilton 11th.
Instagram, it seems, is not their most urgent concern.
