Lando Norris is expecting Red Bull to remain a consistent threat to McLaren for the remainder of the 2025 F1 season.<\/p>\n
McLaren has been the strongest competitor for much of the campaign, taking 12 wins in the 17 rounds held so far.<\/p>\n
Having slipped back in the order midway through the year, Red Bull has taken back-to-back victories at Monza and Baku, respectively.<\/p>\n
McLaren endured an uncharacteristically difficult weekend in Azerbaijan, with championship leader Oscar Piastri crashing out on the opening lap and team-mate Lando Norris failing to rise higher than seventh.<\/p>\n
Verstappen dominated en route to his fourth win of the year, and Norris was not surprised to see him do so.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not often that they’re slow, so I think people need to stop being so surprised that they’re quick,\u201d Norris told media including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax was winning races already at the beginning of the year. He could have won round one.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he was pretty close to winning round two, in the sprint or something. The whole season, they’ve been quick.<\/p>\n
“The Red Bull has been good. They brought some upgrades to Monza, which seems to have helped them improve even more.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo not a surprise. I think we know that they’re an incredibly strong team and he\u2019s one of the best drivers ever in Formula 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we expect nothing less. They’re going to make our life difficult, I think, for the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Norris spent the latter stages of the race tucked up behind the second Red Bull of Yuki Tsunoda, unable to pass the Japanese driver.<\/p>\n
The Briton revealed that by following Tsunoda, he was able to see areas the Red Bull car holds an advantage over McLaren’s challenger.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe struggled a bit here,\u201d Norris said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMonza, clearly, we were not quick enough. We’ve made improvements, but things where the Red Bull have been so good and dominated in the past, they still have and we don’t.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was following the Red Bull, there were clearly some areas where they were just another level to us. We need to understand why.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris is expecting Red Bull to remain a consistent threat to McLaren for the remainder of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-174788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174788","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=174788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}