Former champion has supplied recommendation to forward of the brand new season, saying that the Brit must work on the “internal demons in his thoughts” if he’s to win the world title.
star Norris got here second to by , and Rosberg says that the 25-year-old “is the favorite for subsequent yr now to win the championship”, although there are nonetheless areas by which he wants to enhance.
“He has proven uncooked velocity on a stage I’d say even with a Max Verstappen. So the uncooked velocity is there, it’s very, very phenomenal and it’s world champion-like,” mentioned Rosberg.
“The place we’ve nonetheless seen a bit little bit of points for him is he has some internal demons in his thoughts which consequence within the one or two errors. Essentially the most notable was Singapore the place he was main the race by 20 seconds and two occasions he nearly crashed out to the extent that it was even a bit unusual that it was so excessive.
“So he has to work on that a bit bit nonetheless to only scale back the one or two errors, which is an space the place Oscar Piastri is stronger.”
Rosberg, who retired in 2016 after successful the Drivers’ Championship title himself, went on to supply three distinct items of recommendation to the younger driver.
Chatting with , he began by recommending that Norris doesn’t “make the error and begin constructing your self in direction of ‘I’m the favorite, all the pieces else however successful goes to be a failure’.
“It’s simply an pointless stress. If you would like, do it internally or no matter, however particularly not externally,” he added.
“The second can be, put together the hell out of it. Put together like loopy! You by no means know in F1 when the following alternative involves be world champion. You actually by no means know as a result of it relies upon a lot in your group.
Lastly, the German added that Norris “must analyse each single wheel-to-wheel battle that Max Verstappen has been in all through the entire final three years” in order that he can “perceive what he may do higher tactically to beat Max in these conditions”.
The primary race of the 2025 F1 calendar takes place in Melbourne on 16 March 2025.
