Two-time F1 champion Mika Hakkinen has stated McLaren is facing a \u201chorrible\u201d situation as the title fight reaches its final stages.<\/p>\n
Lando Norris currently leads the championship following a dominant run to victory last time out in Mexico City.<\/p>\n
The Briton holds a one-point advantage over team-mate Oscar Piastri, who has endured a more difficult stretch of form in recent rounds.<\/p>\n
The pair are seen as the primary title protagonists, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is viewed as an outside bet with a 36-point deficit to Norris.<\/p>\n
Hakkinen, who won two F1 titles with McLaren, has praised the team’s harmonious relationship amid the championship battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cZak Brown, Andrea [Stella], really incredible,\u201d Hakkinen told the High Performance podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had to work so closely with drivers that they find a beautiful harmony towards the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knowing there is a strong chance one of its drivers will win the title, it will leave the other immensely disappointed over the missed opportunity.<\/p>\n
Hakkinen asserted it is a difficult scenario for any team to process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is racing and one of these drivers, they can win a championship. It’s a nightmare. It’s an absolutely horrible situation inside the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t mean [that] negatively. I just mean it is what it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have great partners, McLaren, they have great team members, the mechanics, engineers, marketing, designers. It’s a beautiful team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want this season to end in a perfect way and that’s why I think Lando is already quite experienced about F1.<\/p>\n
\u201cOscar is getting there. So I believe that they will find ways to end the season in a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time F1 champion Mika Hakkinen has stated McLaren is facing a \u201chorrible\u201d situation as the title fight reaches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195702,"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-257343","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\/257343","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=257343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}