{"id":109276,"date":"2025-08-31T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109276\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:45:07","slug":"lando-norris-will-give-it-everything-in-f1-title-race-after-dutch-gp-hopes-dashed-formula-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109276\/","title":{"rendered":"Lando Norris will \u2018give it everything\u2019 in F1 title race after Dutch GP hopes dashed | Formula One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris has said he will \u201cchill out and just go for it\u201d in an effort to bridge the gap to his McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri<\/a>, after the British driver was forced to retire from the Dutch Grand Prix and the Australian took a 34-point lead in the world championship.<\/p>\n

Norris was just nine points behind Piastri going into the 15th round of the season at Zandvoort but an oil leak cost him dear. With seven laps to go when he was in second place and just over one second behind Piastri, \u00adNorris was left helpless as his car ground to a halt by the side of the track.<\/p>\n

Nine meetings remain this season and Piastri has enough of a lead that catching him will take a herculean effort from Norris, which the British driver acknowledged.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only made it harder for me and put me under more pressure but it\u2019s almost a big enough gap now that I can just chill out about it and just go for it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only thing I can do is try to win every race. That\u2019s going to be difficult, but I\u2019ll make sure I give it everything I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri dominated from pole in Zandvoort and was unlikely to have been passed by Norris even had he made it to the flag. The British driver conceded that clawing back the points in the fight against his teammate, who now has seven victories this season, would be an immense task.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just close, I have a good teammate, he\u2019s strong,\u201d Norris said. \u201cHe\u2019s quick in every situation, every scenario. It\u2019s hard to get things back on someone who\u2019s just good in pretty much every situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quick GuideDutch F1 GP result and standingsShow<\/p>\n

1 Oscar Piastri (Aus) McLaren 1hr 38mins 29.849sec<\/p>\n

2 Max Verstappen (Ned) Red Bull +1.271<\/p>\n

3 Isack Hadjar (Fr) Racing Bulls +3.233<\/p>\n

4 George Russell (GB) Mercedes +5.654<\/p>\n

5 Alexander Albon (Tha) Williams +6.327<\/p>\n

6 Oliver Bearman (GB) Haas +9.044<\/p>\n

7 Lance Stroll (Can) Aston Martin +9.497<\/p>\n

8 Fernando Alonso (Sp) Aston Martin +11.709<\/p>\n

9 Yuki Tsunoda (Jpn) Red Bull +13.597<\/p>\n

10 Esteban Ocon (Fr) Haas +14.063<\/p>\n

11 Franco Colapinto (Arg) Alpine +14.511<\/p>\n

12 Liam Lawson (NZ) Racing Bulls +17.063<\/p>\n

13 Carlos Sainz Jr (Sp) Williams +17.376<\/p>\n

14 Nico H\u00fclkenberg (Ger) Sauber +19.725<\/p>\n

15 Gabriel Bortoleto (Br) Sauber +21.565<\/p>\n

16 Kimi Antonelli (It) Mercedes +22.029<\/p>\n

17 Pierre Gasly (Fr) Alpine +23.629
DNF\u00a0Lando Norris (GB) McLaren, Charles Leclerc (Mon) Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton (GB) Ferrari
Fastest lap: Piastri 1:12.271 on lap 60<\/p>\n

Drivers’ championship 1 Piastri 309pts, 2 Norris 275, 3 Verstappen (Ned) 205, 4 Russell 184, 5 Leclerc 151, 6 Hamilton 109, 7 Antonelli 64, 8 Albon 64, 9 H\u00fclkenberg 37, 10 Hadjar 37, 11 Stroll 32, 12 Alonso 30, 13 Ocon 28, 14 Gasly 20, 15 Lawson 20, 16 Bearman 16, 17 Sainz Jr 16, 18 Bortoleto 14, 19 Tsunoda 12, 20 Colapinto 0, 21 Doohan 0<\/p>\n

Constructors’ championship 1 McLaren 584pts, 2 Ferrari 260, 3 Mercedes 248, 4 Red Bull 214, 5 Williams 80, 6 Aston Martin 62, 7 Racing Bulls 60, 8 Sauber 51, 9 Haas F1 44, 10 Alpine 20<\/p>\n

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Piastri, however, was far from \u00adtaking \u00adanything for granted, despite the advantage. Asked if he thought he could now play the percentages on the run-in to the title he was unequivocal. \u201cNo, there\u2019s still a long way to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to keep pushing and trying to win races still. I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s a very comfortable margin. As we saw today, it can change with one DNF very, very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

McLaren have yet to confirm if the oil leak came from the engine or chassis after a very unusual reliability failure in the most recent phase of the turbo-hybrid era \u2013 poor fortune which Norris had to accept.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like in the olden days when you used to pretty much blow up every other race,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I think it was inevitable. We don\u2019t expect it nowadays. It\u2019s just frustrating, unlucky, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has said he will \u201cchill out and just go for it\u201d in an effort to bridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-109276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}