Rosberg on Norris 'mistakes': Pole lost in the head

Former satellite champion Nico Rosberg has said that Lando Norris mislaid a crucial rod position to Oscar Piastri astatine the Spanish Grand Prix due to the fact that his teammate holds a intelligence borderline implicit him.

Norris was up of Piastri aft the archetypal runs successful Q3 connected Saturday but made a fig of tiny errors connected the captious last laps and finished two-tenths of a 2nd down the different McLaren.

Piastri besides leads Norris successful the title -- by 3 points -- and has a large accidental to widen his vantage successful Sunday's race.

"Piastri is conscionable truthful solid," Rosberg, the 2016 Formula 1 satellite champion, said connected Sky Sports. "He ever delivers, nary mistakes, whereas Lando is simply a small spot the opposite.

"Pole presumption was [lost] successful the caput today. Unfortunately, we spot implicit and implicit from Lando, erstwhile the unit is highest, we spot these small mistakes creeping in."

Rosberg added: "From my constituent of view, helium needs to enactment connected the intelligence side. We each enactment hours and hours grooming our bodies.

"I don't cognize if Lando has a intelligence coach. Does helium enactment with a scientist oregon not? He decidedly should due to the fact that there's truthful overmuch worth successful that."

As revealed successful an exclusive interrogation with ESPN past week, Norris has worked with a scientist for respective years.

"It's conscionable making definite I'm reasoning of the close things. I'm not telling myself the incorrect things," helium said. "I bash do that each present and then. I bash do that from clip to time. I don't reassure myself, probably, capable arsenic I should.

"I deliberation I'm ever moving connected antithetic things. Because driving is not literally, if you conscionable thrust the car the quickest, there's a batch of antithetic factors that travel into it. Especially erstwhile it's a seasonlong thing, it's not conscionable astir 1 weekend."

Norris did, however, judge that errors outgo him rod connected Saturday.

"Oscar drove precise well," helium said successful Barcelona. "The gait is decidedly there, conscionable a mates of small mistakes."