Lando Norris has revealed that his mistakes earlier on in the 2025 Formula 1 season have helped him to strike a better balance when it comes to risk versus reward.
Norris goes into the remaining seven rounds needing to overturn a 25-point gap to McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to land a coveted maiden World Championship.
The Briton opened up his own sizeable advantage when he won the opening race in Australia, but several notable errors over one lap cost him ground against Piastri.
Norris was condemned to damage limitation drives in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Canada due to his own blunders in a McLaren car that hasn’t suited his driving style.
However, Norris has minimised the slip-ups as the year has developed, something which he has owed to a change in approach that has seen him be more calculated.
“I still make these mistakes, it is not that I [stopped], I still make mistakes,” Norris told media including Motorsport Week.
“I think some of the mistakes I make are maybe not the same size, like there was a crash in Saudi Arabia and in China, like several places cost a lot of points.
“So it is not that I don’t make mistakes, I try and improve in everything I can, both on and off the track.
“I guess understanding risk levels and accepting that sometimes a half-a-tenth loss instead of trying to gain half-a-tenth can be the difference between actually making a mistake of three-tenths and having a China or Saudi problem.
“So I guess my risk balance improved, and my driving, my ability to understand the car, I was struggling more with it then than I am now.
“So it was a collection of different things, but all improved because of work behind the scenes.”
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