{"id":90695,"date":"2025-08-23T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90695\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:44:07","slug":"why-oscar-piastri-backs-himself-to-beat-lando-norris-in-2025-f1-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90695\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oscar Piastri backs himself to beat Lando Norris in 2025 F1 title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri<\/a> insists he has the pace and consistency needed to beat McLaren<\/a> team-mate Lando Norris<\/a> for the 2025 Formula 1<\/a> championship, despite a few imperfect weekends so far.<\/p>\n

The Australian driver will soon have to defend his lead in the standings after the end of the summer break, with the Dutch Grand Prix next week offering Norris the first opportunity to reassert his claim for glory this season.<\/p>\n

After the British driver took the spoils in the season opener at Albert Park, Piastri delivered near-flawless performances to establish himself as the front-runner for the title. He claimed wins in China, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Miami before Norris eventually returned to the top step in Monaco. <\/p>\n

However, Piastri needed a superb drive at Spa-Francorchamps to deny Norris a clean sweep in the last four races, as the championship fight remains tightly contested as a result.<\/p>\n

After Budapest, Norris has five wins to Piastri\u2019s six, with only nine points separating the pair after 14 rounds. Ahead of the weekend at the Hungaroring, despite holding a 16-point lead, the former Alpine Academy driver was asked if he felt he was still the fastest driver and confident in coming out on top in the intra-team battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I have a lot of confidence in myself that I can do it, yes,\u201d he told media including Motorsport Week. \u201cNot every weekend has been perfect, but there\u2019s not many weekends in my whole life that have been perfect.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think just trying to put together a solid, consistent year is ultimately going to be an important thing. But I think the pace in the last few weekends, I think, especially Spa, I\u2019ve been very confident in and very proud of.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m more than capable of continuing that for the rest of the year. So, yeah, I\u2019m confident that I can do it, but it\u2019s not going to be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe McLarens duelled once again in the closing stages of the Hungarian GP<\/p>\n

Piastri on the balance between speed and consistency in the 2025 title fight<\/p>\n

Norris has faced challenges with consistency this season. Earlier in the year, he admitted to making \u201ctoo many mistakes\u201d during the Bahrain Grand Prix<\/a>, despite finishing third. <\/p>\n

He admitted these errors cost him valuable points and stressed the need to improve. In Austria, Norris also said that whoever makes fewer mistakes will win the title, highlighting the critical role of consistency in the championship battle.<\/p>\n

Put to him what will ultimately decide the 2025 title \u2014 raw speed or minimising mistakes \u2014 Piastri was clear that both qualities will be essential.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth, ideally,\u201d he replied. \u201cYeah, I mean, you can make an argument for either one. You can be consistent, but if you\u2019re consistently coming second, then that\u2019s not very useful for you. So you do need to have both.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the level of the field and the level of my team-mate, you need to bring your best. Inevitably, when you\u2019re pushing that hard, there are going to be mistakes here and there because it doesn\u2019t come without risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you can\u2019t just afford to take things easy and try and be consistent. You need to be consistent \u2013 you need both to win the championship \u2013 you can\u2019t just rely on one.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE \u2013 Why Oscar Piastri is not prepared to play the percentages in 2025 F1 championship battle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri insists he has the pace and consistency needed to beat McLaren team-mate Lando Norris for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,591,590,592,82],"class_list":["post-90695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90695","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=90695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}