{"id":329672,"date":"2025-12-07T05:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:15:09","slug":"is-lando-norris-in-the-pound-seats-for-the-2025-title-or-do-max-verstappen-and-oscar-piastri-have-more-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329672\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lando Norris in the pound seats for the 2025 title \u2013 or do Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri have more to show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Lando Norris&#8217; bid to convert his championship lead into a first Formula 1 world title at the finale in Abu Dhabi got off to a strong start as he set the pace in Friday practice \u2013 but how did his championship rivals Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri fair?<\/p>\n<p>Just how good was Norris on Friday?<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Well, on paper, pretty good. The McLaren racer, who leads the championship by 12 points from Verstappen with Piastri four points further back, looked quick in both the daytime first practice and <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoidGhlX21vcmVfcmVwcmVzZW50YXRpdmVfc2Vjb25kX3Nlc3Npb25fbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC9hcnRpY2xlL2ZwMi1ub3JyaXMtbGVhZHMtdmVyc3RhcHBlbi1kdXJpbmctc2Vjb25kLXByYWN0aWNlLWluLWFidS1kaGFiaS1hcy1waWFzdHJpLjZtcnBlTkFsVjlsekdWZnFobEZYREIiLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/fp2-norris-leads-verstappen-during-second-practice-in-abu-dhabi-as-piastri.6mrpeNAlV9lzGVfqhlFXDB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the more representative second session<\/a> at dusk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris&#8217; bid to convert his championship lead into a first Formula 1 world title at the finale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-329672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329672","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=329672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}