Lando Norris's pole-to-win drive at Interlagos in wet-dry-wet chaos should settle the debate: he's one of F1's elite rain drivers, even if only 6% of fans see it that way. In a recent poll, Max Verstappen took 74% and Lewis Hamilton 13.6% as the grid's best in the wet. Norris got table scraps despite a record that includes four rain-affected wins, poles in China and Brazil this year, and the kind of feel for shifting grip levels that McLaren boss Andrea Stella calls "complete." The Sochi 2021 narrative—that Norris bottled his first win with poor rain calls—misses the point: he was lapping fast enough to win in brutal conditions before a second wave of rain hit. Add Zandvoort, Canada, Las Vegas, and Sunday's masterclass threading the needle between slicks and inters. Now a world champion with 14 victories, Norris keeps proving he belongs in the regenmeister conversation. Whether Verstappen and Hamilton leave room for him there is another question.
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