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    Jul 08, 2021 8 minutes
    WORDS STUART CODLING
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    MCLAREN AND SHUTTERSTOCK

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    SOME DRIVERS ARRIVE in Formula 1 thrillingly complete. Others are still on what’s known in modern media-saturated parlance as “the journey”. For every Lewis Hamilton – podium finisher in his first grand prix, polesitter and winner of his sixth – there are dozens of other slower-burning talents who had to feel their way carefully towards becoming the finished article.

    Lando Norris is perhaps one such. Aged 19 when he made his F1 debut at the 2019 Australian Grand Prix, he was by no means the first teenager to break into motor racing’s top echelon. But there were those who interpreted his boyish swagger and fondness for japery as an inherent lack of seriousness – for certain eminences grise within the paddock, a cardinal and career-limiting sin. The truth was anything but: as he’s revealed recently, beneath the veneer of effervescent good humour he was quietly undergoing a crisis of confidence and went into every grand prix weekend plagued by self-doubt.

    He’s done much to dispel those fears, claiming a first podium finish with a buccaneering drive at last year’s season opener, and emerging as one of this season’s feistiest contenders among the midfield teams – to the extent that McLaren is realistically targeting third place in the constructors’ championship ahead of a resurgent Ferrari. This could

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