Lando Norris is making team-mate Oscar Piastri look “ordinary”, according to racing driver Bradley Philpot.
Speaking on the Missed Apex Podcast, Philpot said of the McLaren duo: “I think [Lando] Norris is absolutely mega. I’m not a fan of Norris yet because I’m a fan of drivers because of moments that I see on track and I don’t necessarily mean being the fastest, just things that I can’t even put my finger on it.
“But mainly off-track attitudes and general persona.
“I think he [Norris] is extremely high quality, I think he is one of those drivers who given the machinery is going to do the job and he seems to have in the short-term fended off the [Oscar] Piastri challenge.
“It looked like Piastri was maybe the person who was going to come and make Norris look a bit more ordinary but despite all the additional races that Piastri has now had to find his feet and get into a Formula One driver mentality, rather than reserve driver or Formula Two champion.
“Norris is making him genuinely quite ordinary, Piastri is still kind of surviving on the good credit that he’s built up until this point, but that won’t go on forever.
“If Norris continues to be the person that tends to always be in front, even if it’s by just a couple of tenths, or tends to always be the person getting the podiums, then Norris is going to resume this role of one of the very next big things, one of the absolute top talents everyone is after.”