168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris has claimed he “won” the battle with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen at the Austrian Grand Prix earlier thi♒s year despite iꦅt ending with a DNF.

Nor🔴ris and Verstappen collided while battling for the lead at the Red Bull Ring.

The pair’s contact forced Norris to retire from the race, while Verstappen could only finish fifth, handing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell an unlikely race victory.

Verstappen had been cruising up until the final round of 🍨p🅠it stops.

However, a slow Red Bull pit stop left him vulnerable to No🍸rris, who was on a fresh set of ♏tyres at the time.

Fortunately for Verstappen, he was able🅠 to outscore Norris by 10🥃 points, rather than lose seven points in the race for the title.

While at the time, it wasn’t expected that Norris wou🌳ld be in title contention, come the end of the year, the events of Austria could be pivotal in deciding who wins the drivers’ title.

In an interview with The Athletic, Norris refle🌼cted oꦜn his intense duel with Verstappen.

“Things didn’t end the w📖ay I wanted them to,” Norris concedౠed.

“And I still feel like on that Sunday, I probably won the ♏battle of … taking the fight to him, although I didn’t win who came out on top that day.”

Verstappen is widely r🅺egarded as the “hardest” driver to race against on traꦺck.

He’s often unforgiving with his defending, as seen against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton in 2021.

Norris conceded that racing Verstappen at the front in F1 is “still quite new”, 🐭admitting the Dutchman has an advantage given hi🙈s experience in the sport.

“Max is probably the hardest guy to ra💛ce on the track,” Norri♕s added.

“He’s probably one 🌟of the most 🌟aware in terms of situations. And helped by him being in this position for the last four or five years. For me, it’s still quite new.”

Heading into next weekend’s United States Grand Prix, Verstappen sits 52 points ahead of Norri♏s with six rounds to go.