{"id":242503,"date":"2025-10-27T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:58:09","slug":"how-the-f1-title-race-became-even-tighter-after-norris-dominated-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242503\/","title":{"rendered":"How the F1 title race became even tighter after Norris dominated in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a> made the journey to Mexico with a rot to stop. Only a few weeks ago, it looked inevitable that one of its drivers would claim their first Formula 1 title win given the gulf to the rest of the field \u2013 but in that time, a resurgent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/829269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Verstappen<\/a> had scythed away at a once-three-figure points deficit. With his arrears now a far more manageable 40 points to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/869530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Piastri<\/a>, McLaren needed to get serious.<\/p>\n<p>In recent races, the MCL39 had looked capricious at best. Contextualised by Red Bull\u2019s growing momentum, there was reason for McLaren to be slightly worried when it got to Mexico \u2013 especially as Red Bull has historically gone well at the high-altitude Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren made the journey to Mexico with a rot to stop. Only a few weeks ago, it looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[110366,49,48,578,576,577,114038,591,1885,590,110365,592,2190,82],"class_list":["post-242503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-autodromo-hermanos-rodriguez","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-how-the-f1-title-race-became-even-tighter-after-norris-dominated-in-mexico","tag-lando-norris","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mclaren","tag-mexican-gp","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}