An overwhelming majority of F1 fans believe Lando Norris will not be crowned world champion at this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
For the first time, Norris has the chance to de-throne Max Verstappen at the Lusail Circuit, but his challenge has been made harder by his disqualification from second place at the Las Vegas GP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After finishing runner-up to the Red Bull in Sin City, Norris was 42 points ahead of the Dutchman, having lost seven points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, after the DSQ, Verstappen took the full 25 points out of Norris, meaning the reigning champion is now just 24 points the championship leader, with 390 points playing 366. In a further twist, Oscar Piastri’s DSQ for the same offence means he is tied with Verstappen on 366.<\/p>\n
Heading to Qatar, Norris cannot win the title in the Sprint race as he must be 50 or more points clear following the Saturday race, but can only achieve a maximum of 32.<\/p>\n
But, to be crowned Britain’s 11th champion and the first for McLaren since Lewis Hamilton in 2008, Norris must simply out-score Piastri and Verstappen by two or more points – to hold a lead of at least 25 heading to the Abu Dhabi finale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Simply put, if Norris wins the Qatar Grand Prix, he will be world champion – but an overwhelming majority of F1 fans do not believe this is going to happen.<\/p>\n
According to the results of a poll run by RacingNews365 following the double DSQ for McLaren, a total of 71.98% of voters believe F1 is set for its first final race title showdown since 2021.<\/p>\n
This number is then further split by 35.59% of voters believing the first three-way finale since the four of 2010 is on the cards, with 34.69% of voters expecting Piastri to fall out of contention and set up a Norris-Verstappen showdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just over a quarter of voters – 28.02% – believe Norris will leave Qatar as the world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overwhelming majority of F1 fans believe Lando Norris will not be crowned world champion at this weekend’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-308097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308097","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=308097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}