Norris and Ricciardo were a popular duo with McLare👍n for two seasons until the veteran Australian was unceremoniously dumped from his seat.

Piast🥀ri, the rookie who repla🐻ced him, claimed his first F1 podium in the most recent race in Japan.

“I'm not afraid to sa💜y it, he's pushed me moreℱ than the last couple of years,” Norris told .

“He’s just adapted quicker ꧋to driving the car. And th🐟erefore he's pushed me more.

“It’s a good thing for me because you do want somebody who can push you, someone you can learn from. You're always going to be lea🎐rning.

“It’s been good. Of course, it's more stressful 𒐪having a qu﷽icker teammate. I have to deal with it.

“I have to work a litꦓtle bit harder to understand some of his driving styles and how he does things because he does things which aren’t the most common at times.

“It’🍎s been good for me, good for the team. We kind of have similar comments, different ways at times driving, sometimes very similar. But our comments always gene💃rally want the same things.

“We’ve been brought up in different 🅠ways and drove different cars, different teams, so always our comments are going to be different.

“And that's always a good thing that you kind of have two perspectives. I think ‘it needs to be better because of this’ and he goes ‘maybe it’ll be betterဣ because of this’.”

Norris has rack💫ed up four P2 finishes in the past seven grands prix.

McLaren’s upgraded car has been the story o🐷f the past few months as they have established themselves as the newest and, often, closest threat to Red Bull.

Norris has long been a fe⛦ted talent tipped for future championships but now, with Piastri alongside him, McLaren have two drivers with huge futures.

Ricciardo, meanwhile, spent the first half of 🍸2023 off the F1 grid before ♏returning with AlphaTauri, where he will remain next season.