{"id":379647,"date":"2025-12-30T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379647\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:30:13","slug":"norris-loses-to-max-verstappen-in-team-principals-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379647\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris Loses to Max Verstappen in Team Principals\u2019 Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite winning the 2025 World Drivers\u2019 Championship, Lando Norris was ranked behind Max Verstappen in the annual top-10 vote by Formula 1 team principals.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-block-name=\"core\/paragraph\" data-wp-block=\"{&quot;dropCap&quot;:false}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/exclusive-the-f1-team-bosses-choose-their-top-10-drivers-of-2025.30ev5TbzHuK6hnaiv9k7KI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-ml-dynamic=\"true\" data-ml-dynamic-type=\"sl\" data-orig-url=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/exclusive-the-f1-team-bosses-choose-their-top-10-drivers-of-2025.30ev5TbzHuK6hnaiv9k7KI\" data-ml-id=\"0\" data-ml=\"true\" data-xid=\"fr1767047530540chg\" data-skimlinks-tracking=\"xid:fr1767047530540chg\">In an exclusive poll published by Formula 1<\/a>, team bosses from across the grid submitted their personal rankings of the season\u2019s top 10 drivers.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-block-name=\"core\/paragraph\" data-wp-block=\"{&quot;dropCap&quot;:false}\">Despite\u00a0securing the title by the narrowest of margins, Norris was placed behind\u00a0Max Verstappen, who was voted driver of the year for the fifth consecutive season, highlighting how team principals weighed overall racecraft and performance across 24 rounds and the fact they knew Verstappen was driving an inferior car to Norris.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-block-name=\"core\/paragraph\" data-wp-block=\"{&quot;dropCap&quot;:false}\">Verstappen\u2019s consistency and late-season surge impressed the team principals enough to place him above the champion, even though he ended runner-up in the standings by just two points.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-block-name=\"core\/paragraph\" data-wp-block=\"{&quot;dropCap&quot;:false}\">Lewis Hamilton did not even rank in the top-10.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-block-name=\"core\/paragraph\" data-wp-block=\"{&quot;dropCap&quot;:false}\">The team principals who took part in the vote were:<\/p>\n<p>McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella,<br \/>\nMercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff,<br \/>\nWilliams Team Principal James Vowles,<br \/>\nRacing Bulls Team Principal Alan Permane,<br \/>\nAston Martin\u2019s Senior Leadership Team,<br \/>\nHaas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu,<br \/>\nSauber Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley<br \/>\nAlpine Managing Director Steve Nielsen.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-block-name=\"core\/paragraph\" data-wp-block=\"{&quot;dropCap&quot;:false}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4x5 F1 infographics (1).webp.webp\" alt=\"4x5%20F1%20infographics%20(1).png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite winning the 2025 World Drivers\u2019 Championship, Lando Norris was ranked behind Max Verstappen in the annual top-10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-379647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379647","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=379647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}