Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko believes “nuances” will determine who wins the 2025 F1 drivers’ championship, with Max Verstappen fighting to come back against Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n
The McLaren team-mates appeared to have a stranglehold on the title fight, but a late-season resurgence from Red Bull has thrust the Dutchman back into contention.<\/p>\n
With four rounds remaining, the four-time F1 drivers’ champion trails Norris by 36 points and Piastri by 35 but remains an outside bet at claiming his fifth crown.<\/p>\n
If he can do so, he will match the streak Michael Schumacher achieved with Ferrari between 2000 and 2004.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the considerable task facing the Milton Keynes-based squad, Marko told sports.de: “We believe in it. We have the will and a small chance.<\/p>\n
The 82-year-old compared it to Sebastian Vettel’s first championship, in 2010, and his third two years later \u2014 both of which saw the German come from behind to clinch title glory.<\/p>\n
“In 2010 we managed it in the last race, in 2012 as well, and in 2021 Verstappen became world champion in the last lap,” Marko added.<\/p>\n
Regardless of whether the 68-time grand prix winner outlasts the two McLaren drivers, coming from 104 points back to just 35 in just five rounds has made a clear statement.<\/p>\n
To Marko, Verstappen has “already achieved some special feats, but if he manages this comeback, that would be particularly sensational.”<\/p>\n
The Austrian is adamant it will be a case of limiting errors and holding nerve, arguing it will come down to finer details.<\/p>\n
“Now it’s a matter of having nerves of steel and not making any mistakes. Nuances will decide it,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko believes “nuances” will determine who wins the 2025 F1 drivers’ championship, with Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254638,"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-254637","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\/254637","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=254637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}