Williams’ Alex Albon believes McLaren can “cover off” Max Verstappen in the F1 drivers’ title fight, if it decides to prioritise either Oscar Piastri or Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
Piastri holds a small 14-point lead over Norris ahead of this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix, while Verstappen is 40 points adrift of the Australian.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, it is Verstappen with all the momentum, having taken 64 points out of his deficit to Piastri across the last four rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since Red Bull introduced a new floor to the RB21 at the Italian GP, Verstappen is yet to qualify or finish behind a McLaren driver.<\/p>\n
Both Piastri and Norris have made serious mistakes in recent rounds, further increasing the Dutchman’s chances of a record-equalling fifth consecutive title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McLaren has insisted that as things stand, it will continue to allow its drivers to fight, something Albon views as “fair”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although, should the Woking-based outfit want to ensure Piastri or Norris wins a maiden championship, then Albon believes McLaren focusing on one driver is needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Discussing Verstappen’s title chances, Albon told select media including RacingNews365: “It’s a good track for him here, that’s for sure. It’ll be interesting.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be interesting to me to see how McLaren have to play \u00a0it, because they’re still playing both drivers into the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But at the same time, you could easily cover him [Verstappen] off, if you prioritise one driver. But I think what they’re doing is fair, and they shouldn’t do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So it is going to come down to the wire. It seems like they’ve [Red Bull] got good momentum right now. Their upgrade seems to be working since Monza. You can never count Max out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams’ Alex Albon believes McLaren can “cover off” Max Verstappen in the F1 drivers’ title fight, if it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-238142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238142","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=238142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}