Five reasons behind Oscar Piastri F1 title collapse claimed by Martin Brundle<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWhat happens is: it becomes a reality. For a long time, it was a dream and then it became maybe a possibility, but maybe a long shot. When it\u2019s almost a guaranteed outcome \u2013 you only had those two [Norris and Piastri] really at the start of the season who were looking like they were on track \u2013 then it starts to play on your mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality of it is quite a shock, I think, for the first time that you\u2019ve been in that situation. You have to have the right approach to it. Someone like Max, he\u2019s got over the hurdle of the first title. With the first title, it gets a bit tantalising and that can be distracting as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen responded magnificently from a shock Q1 exit in Brazil. Forced to start from the pit lane after Red Bull made setup changes to his RB21 and fitted a new Honda engine, Verstappen demonstrated that he remains a threat in this title showdown.<\/p>\n
A Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi triple-header remains to see out the season and crown the F1 2025 World Champion, though Verstappen was keeping his cards close to his chest, when asked if he was confident that he can be competitive at all three venues.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo idea. I don\u2019t know,\u201d he said in the Brazil post-race press conference. \u201cI mean, look at this weekend. Look at Mexico. Then look at the races before. So it\u2019s really impossible to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
To remain in title contention following the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Verstappen must be no more then 57 points behind the title leader heading to the Sprint weekend in Qatar.<\/p>\n
Read next: Damon Hill identifies Piastri recovery key after Norris \u2018found something\u2019 in F1 title battle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race for the F1 2025 Drivers\u2019 Championship is approaching crunch time. Lando Norris has established an advantage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,26956,817,813,816,818,825,44,17165,85],"class_list":["post-289871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-damon-hill","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-max-verstappen","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289871","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=289871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}