Lando Norris is currently in the championship tussle with McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. The Briton, though, won't cross certain lines to achieve the milestone as 'it won't matter once we're all dead.
The title fight has seen the gap ebb and flow with Piastri having a firm grip at the head of the drivers' classification since the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Despite Norris' back-to-back wins in Austria and Great Britain, and his pole position in Belgium, the Australian driver managed to pip his British teammate when the points were handed out last weekend on the Sprint race and the Belgian Grand Prix, stretching the gap to 16 points.
Norris on fight vs Piastri: 'No one will care, we'll all be dead'
However, Norris refrains from playing the mental warfare against teammate Piastri because he doesn't 'enjoy that', downplaying the importance of the title fight since in his view, "In 200 years no one is going to care. We’ll all be dead."
Norris emphasises that he is only trying to enjoy his F1 career, but whilst he still cares about the championship, which can be seen from his reactions when he falls to his teammate, he will not let the battle slip into personal territory.
"[Losing to Piastri] doesn’t mean I need to take it out on Oscar. I just don’t get into those kind of things."
'Piastri is the guy I want to beat the most, but not at any expense'
As the Australian is the Briton's teammate, he's the one Norris wants to beat the most, as both have the same machinery. "But if I don’t beat him, then that’s just because he has done a better job."
Norris will stick to his guns and the fact that other drivers have done it in the past, he will not take it as leaway to do it himself now. "I don’t really care about those things," he concluded.
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