Nico♒ Rosberg sent a message to Laཧndo Norris and revealed how a sports psychologist helped his own career.

McLaren driver Norris was on pole position at last weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix but, after a first-lap battle with teammate Oscar Piastri, eventu🍌ally left the door open for Ferrari’s Char💛les Leclerc to win.

Norris has won his first 🌠two grands prix this season꧒ and is in a fight for the drivers’ championship, 62 points behind leader Max Verstappen.

But Natalie Pinkham assessed Norris on the Sky F1 podcast: “He is the first to say ‘I am not driving like a world champion should’🐭. He is publicﷺly self-critical.

“I feel𒀰 that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy if you say ‘I am weak and I mak🌄e mistakes’, then you will make mistakes.

“You need to project the strong🍒est sense of self, and buy into that.”

2016 F1 champion Rosberg replied: “A sports psychologis🍃t will tell you that you 🍃need to believe what you say.

“I wrote a 🍸DM to Lando, because I thought my experience might be interesting to him, because I’ve been through all that.

“For him, the glass is always half-empty rather than halꦜf-full.

“He is ♔very authentic which is lovely. But you can be authentic and be half-꧅full.

“The best exam𒅌ple was his qualifying lap. Lando puts it on pole then focuses his post-qualifying talk on ‘I messed up my lap, I apologise to my team, I was down after Turn 1 and 2…’

“He could have said ‘most of the lap was pe𒆙rfect’. Both are theꦯ truth.

“But he decided 🌟to focus on his mistake and the bad part, not the rest which was worl🌼d-class.

“I would hope and enco🅠urage that he thinks about t🎃hat.

“His thoughts will remain ꦗhalf-empty. It’s the way he is, and it’s the way I am.

“You can have an impact if you adapt what you’re saying. If you consciously adꦗapt 🦹what you say, you can have a positive spiral, which impacts your thoughts.”

The use of a sports psychologist aided Rosberg in taking the ༒final step in his F1 journey by becoming champion in his final season.

“I worked with a sports psychologist for 10 years, and really intensified it in theဣ last year,” he said.

“It was a lot of effort, two hours of co♐aching and learning every two days throughout the whole winter.

“It was more intense than the physical training.

“It wa🌳s incredibly demanding but so worthwhile and valuable.

“Beyond sport, I learned so 🃏much and made so much pr🍒ogress.”