{"id":249456,"date":"2025-10-29T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249456\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:06:13","slug":"oscar-piastri-brutally-overlooked-as-lando-norris-and-max-verstappen-overwhelmingly-backed-for-f1-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249456\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri brutally overlooked as Lando Norris and Max Verstappen overwhelmingly backed for F1 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri has endured a difficult patch of form over the past few rounds of the F1 season, losing his once-considerable grip on the F1 drivers&#8217; championship fight.<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris has overturned his once-34-point deficit to lead the standings with just four rounds to run, but Max Verstappen has whittled down the once-formidable advantage the McLaren drivers enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver is only 36 points behind the Briton, having been 104 points adrift of Piastri after the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the Australian is still very much in the battle for the crown, but he has been almost completely overlooked by fans in a recent poll by RacingNews365.<\/p>\n<p>Only 12.44 per cent of respondents feel the nine-time grand prix winner is the favourite to win the drivers&#8217; championship, with Norris and Verstappen scooping up nearly 80 per cent of the vote combined.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results from the latest poll by RacingNews365 below! Let us know what you think in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has endured a difficult patch of form over the past few rounds of the F1 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249457,"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-249456","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\/249456","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=249456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}