{"id":174903,"date":"2025-12-04T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:04:06","slug":"abu-dhabi-grand-prix-lando-norris-says-he-will-not-ask-oscar-piastri-for-title-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174903\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Lando Norris says he will not ask Oscar Piastri for title help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Piastri is now the outsider to secure his first drivers&#8217; title, as the 24-year-old needs to take victory on Sunday and for Norris to finish sixth or lower. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not something we have discussed,&#8221; said Piastri, who was back on form in Qatar and should have won the race but ended up finishing second to Verstappen after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cx2d0yeqqpwo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poor strategy call<\/a> by McLaren. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Until I know what&#8217;s kind of expected, I don&#8217;t really have an answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Norris said if the roles were reversed and it was Piastri who was looking for help in the decider, he would be prepared to move aside and let his team-mate pass. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Personally, I think I would, just because I feel I&#8217;m always like that. That&#8217;s just how I am,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris was 34 points behind Piastri following his retirement at the Dutch Grand Prix at the end of August but podiums at Monza, Singapore and Austin, plus back-to-back victories in Mexico and Brazil, allowed him to regain control of the championship heading into the final few races. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is aiming to become the 11th British F1 driver to be crowned world champion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris originally finished second at the Las Vegas Grand Prix two weeks ago but a double disqualification for McLaren gave that day&#8217;s race winner Verstappen a lifeline back into the championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piastri is now the outsider to secure his first drivers&#8217; title, as the 24-year-old needs to take victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-174903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}