It was around this time last year, as the summer heat intensified, that Lando Norris’ breakthrough season in Formula 1 truly began to take off. Two podium finishes in the first five races had represented a fine start to his third season at McLaren, but it wasn’t until F1’s double-header in Austria that Norris stopped being just another effervescent young driver and started to have the look and feel of a future World Champion. The only driver to intrude on the Red Bull-Mercedes battle in qualifying for the first race in Spielberg, Norris returned a week later to qualify within half a tenth of pole position and, after being penalised for the crime of defending against Sergio Perez, was...
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