<p>London: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/mclaren">McLaren</a> can mount a <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/formula-1">Formula One</a> championship challenge next season after taking the fight to <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/red-bull">Red Bull</a> in 2024, <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/lando-norris">Lando Norris</a> said on Thursday as the team celebrated his first grand prix victory.</p>.<p>The Briton's win in Miami last Sunday was McLaren's first since Australian Daniel Ricciardo led Norris in a one-two at Monza in 2021.</p>.<p>McLaren, the second most successful team in Formula One history in terms of race wins, have not won a title since now-seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton took his first in 2008.</p>.Indian Oil set to join high table of F1 fuel producers.<p>Asked if McLaren could be championship contenders in a year's time, Norris told Sky Sports television: "100%. And I'm saying that still with my feet on the ground.</p>.<p>"As much as I said at the beginning of this year we can win races, I want to believe and I should have the confidence to say next year we can go for more, we can go for the next step."</p>.<p>Norris beat Red Bull's triple world champion Max Verstappen by 7.6 seconds on Sunday after a safety car period fell to his advantage. Verstappen had won four of the previous five rounds this season.</p>.<p>Red Bull revealed after the race that the Dutch driver had damaged the floor of his car when he hit a bollard.</p>.<p>"I'm sure something's changed, there's something inside that's changed because I'm a race winner now, but at the same time it doesn't change how I approach things. I'm still the same guy, I still want to win more," said Norris.</p>.<p>He added that McLaren, currently third in the championship with Ferrari second, could win more races this year.</p>.<p>"I think we're looking at an exciting season between us, Red Bull, Ferrari. We still have work to do, we're not at the level that they are just yet," he said.</p>.<p>Norris also expected the dynamic with Verstappen, a friend, to change.</p>.<p>"I'm sure it will... we have respect for one another, we get along. We're not best friends, we don't text each other every day, but we just have a lot of respect," he said.</p>.<p>"I want to challenge him, I want to race against him, I want to battle because I think he's one of the best drivers ever in Formula One. So if I can prove myself against him I'm proving myself against one of the best."</p>
<p>London: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/mclaren">McLaren</a> can mount a <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/formula-1">Formula One</a> championship challenge next season after taking the fight to <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/red-bull">Red Bull</a> in 2024, <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/lando-norris">Lando Norris</a> said on Thursday as the team celebrated his first grand prix victory.</p>.<p>The Briton's win in Miami last Sunday was McLaren's first since Australian Daniel Ricciardo led Norris in a one-two at Monza in 2021.</p>.<p>McLaren, the second most successful team in Formula One history in terms of race wins, have not won a title since now-seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton took his first in 2008.</p>.Indian Oil set to join high table of F1 fuel producers.<p>Asked if McLaren could be championship contenders in a year's time, Norris told Sky Sports television: "100%. And I'm saying that still with my feet on the ground.</p>.<p>"As much as I said at the beginning of this year we can win races, I want to believe and I should have the confidence to say next year we can go for more, we can go for the next step."</p>.<p>Norris beat Red Bull's triple world champion Max Verstappen by 7.6 seconds on Sunday after a safety car period fell to his advantage. Verstappen had won four of the previous five rounds this season.</p>.<p>Red Bull revealed after the race that the Dutch driver had damaged the floor of his car when he hit a bollard.</p>.<p>"I'm sure something's changed, there's something inside that's changed because I'm a race winner now, but at the same time it doesn't change how I approach things. I'm still the same guy, I still want to win more," said Norris.</p>.<p>He added that McLaren, currently third in the championship with Ferrari second, could win more races this year.</p>.<p>"I think we're looking at an exciting season between us, Red Bull, Ferrari. We still have work to do, we're not at the level that they are just yet," he said.</p>.<p>Norris also expected the dynamic with Verstappen, a friend, to change.</p>.<p>"I'm sure it will... we have respect for one another, we get along. We're not best friends, we don't text each other every day, but we just have a lot of respect," he said.</p>.<p>"I want to challenge him, I want to race against him, I want to battle because I think he's one of the best drivers ever in Formula One. So if I can prove myself against him I'm proving myself against one of the best."</p>