Nico Rosberg sent a message to Lando Norris and revealed how a sports psycholo𝓀gist helped his own career🍎.

McLaren driver Norris was on pole position at last wee💮kend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix but, after a first-lap battle with teammate Oscar Piastri, eventually left the door open for Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to win.

Norris has won his first two grands prix this season and is in a fight for the drivers’ championship, 62 poi🦄nts 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 cha🌼mpion should’. He is publicly self-critical.

“I fee🌱l that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy if you say ‘I am weak and I make mistakes’, then you will make mistakes.

“You need to project the strongest sense ♒of self, and buy i𒁏nto that.”

2016 F1 champion Rosberg replied: “🦹A sports psychologist will tell you that you need to believe wha🗹t you say.

“I wrote a DM to Lando, because I thought my experience might be interesting to him, becaus𓃲e I’ve been through all t💛hat.

“For him, the glass ꦓis always h🍎alf-empty rather than half-full.

“He is very authentic which is lovely. But you can be authentic and b꧋e halfไ-full.

“Th𓆉e best example 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 saidꦺ ‘most of the lap was perfect’. Both arܫe the truth.

“But he decided to focus on his mistake and the bad part, not the rest which꧂ was world-class.

“I wou𝔉ld hop🔴e and encourage that he thinks about that.

“His thoughts will🧸 remain half-empty. It’s the w🦋ay he is, and it’s the way I am.

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

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

“I worked with a sports psychologist for 10 years, and really intensi🥀fied it in the last year,” he said.

“It w🌟as a lot of ef🍸fort, two hours of coaching and learning every two days throughout the whole winter.

“It was more intense than the physical training.

“It was ෴incredibly demanding b🌸ut so worthwhile and valuable.

“Beyond sport, I learned ൩so much and made so much progres🅰s.”