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Norris has learned Verstappen's style through sim racing
Jake Williams-Smith
Lando Norris believes he has learned Max Verstappen's driving style through racing him on sim racing games online.
Norris and Verstappen have raced each other multiple times on sim racing games and have even live streamed their antics however the Brit believes he has picked up some things from the Red Bull driver.
"Racing with other people like that, such as Max, I can already learn things coming into this season," Norris said at a promotional event for McLaren's second Shadow driver esports competition.
"I am not really racing Max on track here [in F1], so maybe later on this season or next year we can have some more battles, but I already learned about him when I raced Max and we had some fun races together.
"I can learn how he would drive on the track. I already learned how he would defend, because he is very good at that, and he can be very aggressive at times with his overtakes, and everything.
"Maybe you push a bit more in the sim because you can get away with it, but there are a lot of things I take away from that which I then learned about and knew about Max coming into this season.
"So if I was to race him – and I am sure he learned things from me about what I am good and bad at – but if I was racing him, I would know how he would race, if I never saw him on TV before. I know how he would race me just from driving on the sim."
