Former F1 turned Formula E driver Lucas di Grassi believes Lando Norris or Oscar Piastri not winning the title would be “one of the biggest surprises” in history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Norris took the lead of the drivers’ title by a point after converting pole position into victory with ease in the Mexico City GP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Briton claimed victory by a staggering 30 seconds ahead of Charles Leclerc in second, while Piastri was 42 seconds adrift in sixth.<\/p>\n
Only Norris and Piastri have led the championship this season, with the latter’s advantage over Max Verstappen having been 104 points after winning after the summer break in Zandvoort.<\/p>\n
However, ahead of the final four races, Verstappen has whittled his deficit down to 36 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s new floor introduced in Monza has transformed the RB21, putting the Dutchman in serious contention of a record-equalling fifth consecutive drivers’ title.<\/p>\n
Despite Verstappen having won three of the last five races, he is the main driver in the title fight who cannot afford a bad race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Di Grassi, who raced for Virgin Racing in 2010, believes Verstappen does deserve the title, but that anything less than the drivers’ crown for either Norris or Piastri would be a huge shock<\/p>\n
Asked for his thoughts on the title fight, di Grassi told RacingNews365: “I’m not following F1 that much, but I’ve seen some of the races and some of the the fights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If the McLaren duo lose the drivers’ title, it would be probably one of the biggest surprises in the history of the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So I think as a driver, Max is doing the job, and he deserves the title more than anybody else, but I think it will be very hard for him to win it. That’s my view.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 turned Formula E driver Lucas di Grassi believes Lando Norris or Oscar Piastri not winning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255626,"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-255625","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\/255625","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=255625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}