{"id":14157,"date":"2025-07-22T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/14157\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:13:10","slug":"mclaren-fight-is-going-to-be-down-to-the-mentality-of-lando-norris-and-oscar-piastri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/14157\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren fight is going to be \u201cdown to the mentality\u201d of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Formula 1 driver Johnny Herbert<\/a> believes that the 2025 drivers’ championship will come “down to the mentality of” McLaren<\/a> drivers Lando Norris<\/a> and Oscar Piastri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McLaren has had a strong start to the year. It leads the constructors’ championship with 460 points, with a 238-point lead over Ferrari<\/a> in second. Piastri leads the drivers’ standings with an eight-point lead over his team-mate. In the first 12 races of the year, Piastri has celebrated five victories and Norris four.<\/p>\n

The Woking-based squad lets the drivers fight freely on track to a certain extent, creating intense and exciting battles for fans. But a crash ended Norris’ Canadian Grand Prix early when he went for a gap that simply wasn’t there. The team and drivers acknowledged that allowing them to race meant a crash between them was inevitable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following the crash, Norris clinched both the Austrian and British Grands Prix victories.<\/p>\n

“Oscar\u2019s come into F1 in a very, very mature way,” Herbert explained to F1.com<\/a>. “He\u2019s got himself in a good team at the right time and he\u2019s delivering. But then I throw it on the other side, and Lando is improving\u2026 he\u2019s probably a later developer in some ways, but he has changed over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

“I think the incident in Canada, the positives of\u00a0Austria\u00a0and\u00a0Silverstone\u2026 I always say it\u2019s about capacity, and I think his brain capacity sometimes gets full up.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s the baggage that comes with everything that\u2019s going on, and I know from my own career, there are times where you\u2019ve got to get rid of baggage that\u2019s hanging around your neck.<\/p>\n

\"Lando <\/p>\n

Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Glenn Dunbar \/ Motorsport Images<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s going to be down to the mentality of both of them. But they\u2019re both youngish and they\u2019re only going to get better as time goes by, like Max has done, like Lewis did,\u00a0Ayrton Senna,\u00a0Alain Prost,\u00a0Michael Schumacher<\/a>\u2026 they have that wonderful ability to find a way of moving up every time the performance of the car gets better.<\/p>\n

“With all the little ups and downs they\u2019ve had, they\u2019re still very, very close overall. It\u2019ll only be one over the other come the end of the year.”<\/p>\n

Norris has faced scrutiny over his mental resilience due to his open approach with the media. The British driver doesn’t hide his emotions following races and is often publicly hard on himself. Piastri, on the other hand, had remained level-headed until the British Grand Prix, where his frustrations surrounding a 10-second penalty boiled over after the race.<\/p>\n

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