The Formula 1 paddock reconvenes this weekend for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with plenty of topics up for discussion during Thursday’s media day.<\/p>\n
Having taken a dominant victory last time out in Mexico City, Lando Norris<\/a> reclaimed the lead of the Drivers’ Championship for the first time since April and with just four Grands Prix remaining.<\/p>\n The McLaren driver, though, suggested nothing would change<\/a> over the remaining races, despite now leading McLaren team mate Oscar Piastri<\/a>.<\/p>\n Piastri, meanwhile, believes he has “still got what it takes”<\/a> to claim his maiden F1 title despite a difficult run of form which has meant the Australian hasn’t reached the podium in the last four Grands Prix.<\/p>\n Max Verstappen<\/a> remains a threat, just 36 points behind Norris, and outlined the “big challenge”<\/a> of closing the gap if he hopes to seal a fifth title.<\/p>\n Elsewhere down the grid, Charles Leclerc<\/a> admitted that P2 was “not good enough” for Ferrari<\/a> after a podium in Mexico, while Mercedes team mates Kimi Antonelli<\/a> and George Russell<\/a> reflected on a heated intra-team battle last time out.<\/p>\n Join James Hinchcliffe, Alice Powell, Alex Jacques and Jolyon Palmer on Weekend Warm-Up for all of the above and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Formula 1 paddock reconvenes this weekend for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with plenty of topics up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-268326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268326","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=268326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}