Lando Norris defiant after missing major chance against ‘incredible’ Oscar Piastri

Lando Norris is defiant that he is "doing the best I can" after
missing a golden opportunity to eat into Oscar Piastri's points
lead. After Piastri crashed out on the first lap of the Azerbaijan
GP, the day after a qualifying accident, Norris was presented with
the chance to massively reduce the 31-point buffer Piastri held,
but could only finish seventh, earning himself six points. This
reduced Piastri's lead to 25 points, with the Australian losing
fewer points to Norris (six) than if he had finished second to
Norris in the race (seven). There are 199 points remaining in the
season, but Norris firmly rejected the idea that he had missed the
opportunity to turn up the pressure on Piastri with his lowly
performance. "I am doing the best I can in every race, and if you
think like that, every race I finished second or worse this year
was an opportunity lost," Norris told media, including
RacingNews365 , when asked if Baku was an opportunity missed. "So I
don't really care how people look at it, of course I wanted to do
better [in Baku], but I needed to do better [in qualifying], but we
went out first and this was just our decision and we paid the price
for that. "But I could have ended up in the wall or gone long and
something worse could have happened, but I felt close to maximising
[the car in the Baku race], although it may not have looked like it
from the outside. "I am doing the best I can, and I know I've still
got a lot of points to make up against a pretty good, incredible
driver, so I just need to keep my head down."