Norris beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix after a mid-race security automotive allowed him to take the restart within the lead, however the Briton nonetheless managed to drive away from Verstappen to take a convincing maiden win.
After 109 races with out discovering the highest step of the rostrum, Norris’ breakthrough win was lengthy overdue, however the 24-year-old says he by no means doubted his day would come even when he felt others did.
“I’ve had my moments the place we have been shut and I’ve by no means been in a position to convert it into the win,” Norris mentioned.
“As a lot as lots of people doubted that I used to be going to have the ability to put it collectively and win a race, I wasn’t frightened.
“I have been extra assured than ever this 12 months that I’ve obtained what it takes and the workforce have gotten what it takes and I used to be affected person with it.
“I’ve simply been doing my job and executing my races, executing my qualifying, and doing what I can do greatest. I knew my time was coming.”
Norris beforehand had an in depth name in 2021’s Russian Grand Prix, when a botched technique within the rain name noticed him and the workforce throw away a possible win.
That near-miss, which Norris felt “lots of people discuss crap about”, offered questionable arguments to those who doubted the Briton that he might address the strain of racing for wins.
“Folks prefer to proceed to make use of that, even after China final weekend after I made a mistake in Flip 1 on Lewis [Hamilton],” he added. “Anybody can say what they need. Folks need not like me. They need not assist me.
“However when individuals doubt me in sure conditions, you wish to exit and show them fallacious.
“They suppose they know what they’re speaking about and once you show that they do not, then that is a pleasant factor to exit and do.
“It isn’t a dig at anybody, but it surely’s simply good to simply go on the market and do my job and present individuals what I am able to.
“I needed to say just like the Valtteri line ‘to whom it could concern’, however I used to be like ‘ that is copyrighted’, so I did not wish to repeat it!”