30/07/2025 12:00
With 11 rounds of the 2025 F1 season remaining, Oscar Piastri and
Lando Norris are separated by just 16 points as the title fight
intensifies. In the race to become McLaren's first world champion
since Lewis Hamilton in 2008, trends between Piastri and Norris
have developed. Piastri has made only one mistake, in the rain in
Australia, dropping him from second to ninth in the results, a loss
of 16 points, but otherwise has had a strong mentality and has been
largely error-free. Norris meanwhile, has lost nearly double that
through a combination of poor qualifying results, leaving him with
too much work to do in races, crashing into Piastri and eliminating
himself in Canada, or botching the rolling start at Spa. The Briton
has been fiercely self-critical in response to some of these
errors, especially in qualifying. The Spa start with Piastri
roaring past to earn the optimum strategy, cost Norris a 14-point
swing to the Australian driver, which in a title battle as close as
this, could be costly. But has Norris already made one mistake too
many to win the world championship? That is the subject of the
latest RacingNews365 poll. Let us know what you think by voting in
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