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 this year despite it ending with a DNF.

Norris and Verstappen collided while battling f🧸or 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 h🌠ad been cruising up until the final round of pit stops.

How꧋ever, a slow Red Bull pit stop left him vulnerable to Norris, who was on a fres🌞h set of tyres at the time.

Fortunately for Ver༺stappen, 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 Norri💝s would 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 r꧃eflected on his intense duel with Verstappen.

“Things didn’t end the way I wanted them to,”🍨 Norris conceded.

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

Verstappen is widely regar🍎ded as the “hardest” driver to race agaꦦinst on track.

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 Fꦜ1 is “still quite new”, admitting the 𒈔Dutchman has an advantage given his experience in the sport.

“Max is probably ꦕthe hardest guy to race on the 𒐪track,” Norris 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, Versꦜtappen sits 52 points ahead of Norris with six rounds to go.