Quotes from Lando Norris

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

I am sure there's going to be times when I do things wrong that no one's going to like and everyone's going to think I'm terrible and rubbish but I know I'm going to go through those times, and it's just about understanding that that's going to happen.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you've got to start saving. It's not easy.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn't think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

There's so many bits on a car these days it's hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it's hard to know exactly where the car is.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I've had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

F2's much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

You can only get to a certain point when you feel confident with the simulator and it always changes when you get to the track and you actually drive it for real for the first time.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

My favourite car I drove in the 'shoot out' at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.

I don't know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I'm in a very different situation so I don't compare myself to his stats.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

On the RFactor model that comes with the 'Pro-Sim,' everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you're on a race weekend.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it's quite difficult to put the lap together.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn't the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

A team like McLaren doesn't want to keep changing drivers at a time when they're developing the car. They want consistency.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I'd be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

It's rule number one, really - beating your teammate.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there's so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.