{"id":152846,"date":"2025-09-22T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152846\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:37:07","slug":"did-norris-really-throw-away-a-golden-opportunity-to-strike-back-in-the-f1-title-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152846\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Norris really &#8216;throw away&#8217; a &#8216;golden opportunity&#8217; to strike back in the F1 title battle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a consensus across mainstream media following the Azerbaijan Grand Prix that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/lando-norris\/840487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lando Norris<\/a> had thrown away a golden opportunity to catch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a> team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/869530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> in the drivers\u2019 championship, via an ineffectual and anonymous run to seventh place.<\/p>\n<p>But digging into the details, it wasn\u2019t so clear-cut.<\/p>\n<p>Axiomatically, six points for seventh place does not represent the kind of net gain over Piastri that a victory would have brought. But this assumes that Norris should have won in Piastri&#8217;s absence, and in failing to do so he has squandered that gift-wrapped opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a consensus across mainstream media following the Azerbaijan Grand Prix that Lando Norris had thrown away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64622,64745,1665,70173,1687,831,372,6537,1693,3006,1469,1470,371,101,56,54,55,7942],"class_list":["post-152846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-azerbaijan-gp","tag-baku-city-circuit","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-did-norris-really-throw-away-a-golden-opportunity-to-strike-back-in-the-f1-title-battle","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-yuki-tsunoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}