‘I’m doing a better job than anyone’: Norris confident he can seal F1 world title

British driver is staying calm as the pressure grows in Qatar and believes he has the form to be world champion, despite Max Verstappen’s mind games

Standing outside the McLaren motorhome in the paddock for the Qatar Grand Prix as a warm desert breeze stirs the air, Lando Norris cuts a figure entirely at ease even in the centre of the maelstrom of an increasingly tense fight to claim his first Formula One world championship.

While dozens of photographers jostle for space, the mic boom of the Netflix Drive to Survive series swaying over them, Norris has an air of assuredness as he speaks to the clacking of shutters that have increasingly become the backing track to the 26-year-old’s march towards the title.