Lando Norris starts the 2025 Formula 1 season as the clear-cut favourite for the world title. The Mclaren Briton himself seems to be keeping a small guard up.

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Thereafter team orders became explicit. Norris was the first to be asked to help Piastri — by holding up Sergio Pérez in Azerbaijan to prevent him from jumping the McLaren — while Piastri was later more often used to boost Norris’s points haul, notably by giving up victory in the Sao Paulo sprint and positions in the grand prix later that weekend.

Red Bull star Max Verstappen has ruled himself out of victory at the 2025 F1 season-opener in Australia next weekend. The Dutchman won his fourth consecutive world title last year but faces huge competition from the likes of Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc this time around.

Australian F1 star Oscar Piastri arrives in Melbourne this week as a genuine world title contender after his team McLaren won last year’s constructors’ championship.