DOHA :Lando Norris wants to win the Formula One world championship fair and square, without mind games.

The Briton, 24 points clear of Australian Oscar Piastri and Red Bull's four-times world champion Max Verstappen, says he also intends to stay on good terms with his McLaren teammate despite there being so much at stake.

"Some people choose to be a dick and therefore things go wrong, and things go wrong for the team," the 26-year-old told British reporters in Qatar ahead of a weekend that could secure him the title with a race to spare.

"If I want to act like other people have done in the past, it's quite easy... I don't want to, that's not me, I don't enjoy doing that.

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