Eddie Jordan's brutal X-rated Lando Norris verdict after Max Verstappen F1 title blow

Lando Norris has been told to learn lessons from his failed title charge against , as right now he "hasn't got it".

That is the verdict from former team owner , in the wake of the Brit's collapsed title bid. He had a golden opportunity in Brazil having qualified on pole while his rival started 17th, but Verstappen won the race to leave trailing by 62 points.

The driver is still mathematically in with a shot of the title but would need to score highly across the final three rounds of the season and hope that his rival suffers an extraordinary amount of bad luck.

Norris' situation has been discussed by Jordan and former McLaren and Red Bull driver on their Formula For Success podcast. And while the latter is confident that his fellow Brit is "the real deal", Irish businessman Jordan does not believe the 24-year-old is the finished article.

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He said: "Lando has not quite got there yet. He has not got there on the start, he has not got there on the pole position run to the corner. He has the speed, beyond any doubt.

"He has got the speed, but there is nothing in me that tells me that I have seen in Lando something that I saw what Max could do on Sunday. Nothing. I am sorry, it is just not there.

"So Lando has to look at himself long and hard this winter into the mirror and say to himself, 'If I am going to be a great champion, I have a lot to learn here and I need to start replaying those videos about what it really is like to be hard, tough and victorious'. I am sorry, at this moment in time, he has not got it."

Coulthard disagreed and replied: "For me, I think Lando has it. I think Lando will deliver it." But Jordan thinks Norris should have more than the three race wins he has to show for his efforts and added: "He d***ed around on the podium, he d***ed around on the start line. Honestly, how many races should he have won this year?"

Furious about the timing of a red flag in the Brazil race which handed title rival Verstappen a huge advantage, Norris said: "You can change your tyres under the red flag, it is what the others did, so just unlucky and unfortunate. Sometimes it just goes your way.

"So there is nothing we did wrong. I do not care what people say, staying out was not the right thing to do. It should not have been red-flagged, but obviously there was the crash in the end which caused the red. So it is just life, sometimes. You take a gamble, it has paid off for them. It is not talent, it is just luck. Just a bit unlucky."