Belgian GP: Does Lando Norris need F1 championship lead more than Oscar Piastri after Spa-Francorchamps and Hungaroring races | F1 News
The Formula 1 season resumes after his mini-RUP after the British Grand Prix with Lando Norris on the front foot in what almost certainly seems to be an All-McLaren battle for the 2025 pilot championship.
The Belgian Grand Prix of this weekend marks the start of the second half of the 24-races campaign with the title of title Oscar Piastri leading his teammate Norris only eight points at the top of the ranking.
While a first home victory in Silverstone landed on Norris’ knees, with a permission of 10 seconds for the then racing Piastri – a sanction that influenced the order of drivers in McLaren in this race, while making him secure Briton’s victories for the first season for the first season.
So, with two other great prices to do before sport stops most of August for its annual break, with Spa-Francorchamps and the Sprint format before a trip to Budapest for Hungarian GP next week, which McLaren drivers seems more likely to go for the summer on the top?
Does this “guardian moment” of Norris in the reigning race?
Three weeks can be long in Formula 1.
Twenty-one days before taking the acclamations of the crowd of the country at the top of the Silverstone podium, Norris title titles had been carefully dissected by the media after an error of self-admitted judgment at the Canadian GP having seen it hit the back of the Pitri car during the fight against fourth place.
While Piastri has always finished the race, Norris retired to sport and dropped a 22 -point top behind his teammate in the ranking. The incident has clearly risked damaging Briton’s confidence in a season that had already seen him make many mistakes at crucial stadiums of qualification sessions.
Thus, the subsequent consecutive victories in the Ring Red Bull and Silverstone rings have been timely time for Norris, even knowing that the latter may well not have taken place but for the Piastri penalty. However, after having withdrawn two thirds of this deficit of 22 points in the space of two races, Norris could certainly be satisfied with his fifteen work.
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Look at the moment McLaren deny Oscar Piastri a position exchange with Lando Norris after the Australian considered his penalty of 10 seconds “ unjust ” in Silverstone
And talk about The F1 show After the dramatic events of Silverstone, Sky Sports F1 The commentator David Croft suggested that the challenge of the Norris championship in particular could benefit from such a momentum.
“They are both supremely talented and they are both in the same car, so where are the margins that will win a championship?” has thought about Croft.
“Oscar is a cool, calm and level individual, a athlete who keeps a lid on his emotions. Lando can be very different from that. He likes to carry his heart on his sleeve. He likes to talk about his emotions. Sometimes, from the outside, you feel that these emotions can interfere with the process of being an elite athlete in this part.
“I am not saying that they aggravate it or that they make it better. But if one of these two pilots would prosper on confidence and momentum, you would go with Lando as an answer to this.
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Norris smiled at the other in his interview after the race after a very special British first victory of the Grand Prix
“When such fine margins are likely to decide a championship, a little luck to make you a massive difference. You earn championships consistently, with excellence, but also a little luck. In Silverstone, he obtained this with the Pitri penalty.
“When things are going well for him, he has a spring in his approach and he drives much better because he has this confidence. Could this be the time changing the game?
“While we go to Spa, a track he absolutely loves and we saw him very fast in the past, if in the next two races, he could go to the summer break and be ahead, that for me makes a huge difference for Lando Norris.”
What will be the importance of the momentum in the F1 title race?
Montreal remains the only race in the last 11 people that the coherent Piastri has not finished on the podium, but it is also true to say that the championship has won only one of the last six Grands Prix – Spain – while Norris won three.
The 1996 world champion Damon Hill said The F1 show: “It’s like golf course, where the guy leads all the way, but gradually the gap is reduced.
“When the gap is smaller, it comes into your head. Oscar now knows that he has lost an advantage.
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“Lucks play a role and large drops of 25 points can occur. But psychologically momentum, I think, is now with Lando because he also beat Oscar in Austria.
“Oscar has the advantage at the moment and Lando will have to dig deeply and work hard. There will be nothing between them, so it comes down to a little luck.”
Recent history shows leading the championship to the summer holidays, which this year will take place after the Hungarian Grand Prix next weekend, is insignificant.
In 2010, 2012, 2014, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2017, 2018 and 2021, the championship chief in early August did not win the title.
However, Croft and Hill think it might be important that Norris’s confidence is ahead of Piastri after Belgium and Hungary.
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David Croft asks if the British victory of the GP of Lando Norris could change the game in the title race, while the McLaren driver continues his teammate Oscar Piastri
“We used to talk about it with Lewis Hamilton there was once on the strength of his end.
“Knowing that he had this little luck, the momentum with him, he has the chance to direct after the Hungarian Grand Prix, and with very favorable races at the end, that could not end the good of the Lando championship.”
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Hill added: “There is such a thing.
“Lando came for a little stick because he revealed a little too much on himself and it really gave a psychological advantage. He recovered and he seems more solid now. Confidence is building.”
Sky Sports F1 live Belgian GP Belgian
Thursday July 24
1 p.m.: Pilot press conference
Friday July 25
7:55 am: F3 Practical
9:05 am: F2 Practical
11 am: Practice one (the session starts at 11:30 am)
12:55 p.m.: F3 Qualification
1:50 p.m.: F2 Qualification
3 p.m.: Sprint Qualify (session starts at 3.30 p.m.)
Saturday July 26
8:10 am: Sprint F3
10 am: Belgian GP sprint (bright at 11 a.m.)
12:20 p.m.: Ted sprint notebook
12:40 p.m.: F2 Sprint
2 p.m.: Belgian GP Qualify (the session starts at 3 p.m.)
5 p.m.: Ted’s qualification book
Sunday July 27
7:25 am: F3 functionalities race
8:55 am: F2 functionality breed
10:40 am: Porsche Supercup Race
12:30 p.m.: Grand Prix Sunday: Belgian GP Build-Up *
2 p.m.: The Belgian Grand Prix *
4 p.m.: Checkered flag: Belgian GP reaction *
5 p.m.: Ted’s notebook
*Live on the main event of Sky Sports
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