Radio silence between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris since the contentious incidents in Mexico, claims McLaren driver

McLaren driver Lando Norris claimed that he and championship rival Max Verstappen had not spoken since their on-track battle at the 2024 Mexican Grand Prix. The title rivals had two controversial moments during the main race in Mexico last weekend for which the Red Bull driver was found guilty and given two separate 10-second penalties.

At the end of the race, Norris was able to slash ten points out of Max Verstappen's championship lead and get the gap to 47 points. But unlike the crash in Austria where both drivers caught up in Monaco and spoke about the incident, the 24-year-old revealed to Motorsport.com that he and the Dutch driver hadn't communicated with each other yet.

While he maintained that the two friends still respected each other, Lando Norris emphasized to the media the need for the Red Bull driver to change his driving style. He said:

"We've not spoken and I don't think we need to. I've got nothing to say. I still have a lot of respect for Max and everything he does - not respect for what he did last weekend, but respect for him as a person, and also what he's achieved."

"But it's not for me to speak to him. I'm not his teacher, I'm not his mentor or anything like that. Max knows what he has to do. He knows that he did wrong, deep down he does. And it's for him to change, not for me."

Lando Norris chimes in on having "fair and clean" racing in F1

McLaren driver Lando Norris stated that he had the mentality of having "fair and clean" racing. As quoted by the aforementioned source, the three-time race-winner spoke about potentially "paying the price" for abiding by his mentality in terms of not being "aggressive enough".

He said:

"I've always had the mentality to want to race fair and clean. I think I probably said it last weekend, I've been maybe too kind, whether I was attacking or defending. But I think I've always made good decisions from that side. Sometimes I've paid the price for not being aggressive enough, but the rest of it is not up to me."

Norris further added that he was expecting a clean racing heading into Interlagos this weekend:

"There are more times that people realize that you go through those certain scenarios. And I think those are some of the challenges we have every now and then. But I'll come into this weekend with a new expectation of hopefully having clean, fair racing. And I think that's what we should expect," Norris said.

Lando Norris needs to outscore Max Verstappen by over 10 points in every points-scoring session to have a chance of overtaking the three-time world champion in the title race in the remaining four races and two Sprints this year.