McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have both been tipped to win the F1 2025 world title based on different circumstances.<\/p>\n
Former Renault F1 driver Jolyon Palmer has identified how he thinks the McLaren pair are likely to claim the title as the F1 season moves into its second half.<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri backed to beat Norris in McLaren title shootout<\/p>\n
Piastri leads the championship fight by eight points after 12 races, having won five of them with team-mate Norris taking four.<\/p>\n
The pair have a small but telling advantage over Max Verstappen in third, with the title fight increasingly becoming a two-horse race between the papaya pair.<\/p>\n
Momentum is arguably with Norris, who heads into the Belgian Grand Prix as the victor of the two most recent events.<\/p>\n
The Brit controlled the Austrian Grand Prix, seeing off a challenge from Piastri, and was in a position to capitalise when the Australian was pinged for a Safety Car infringement that cost him 10 seconds at his final pit stop in Britain.<\/p>\n
Those events followed a Canadian GP performance in which Norris reeled in his team-mate before challenging for fourth \u2013 ultimately coming unstuck after nosing into Piastri\u2019s rear wheel.<\/p>\n
Piastri\u2019s most recent victory came a race prior, at the Spanish Grand Prix, where he claimed pole position and fastest lap.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the campaign, he completed a hat-trick of wins, taking the Bahrain, Saudi Arabian, and Miami grands prix.<\/p>\n
The Aussie has been a picture of consistency in F1 2025, having finished every race in the points \u2013 and off the podium only twice.<\/p>\n
However, in a head-to-head battle through to the end of the season, Palmer believes it will be Norris who emerge victorious.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Lando might find a run in the second half of the season and just put three or four races together, which will decide the shape of the title. I think Norris will find his feet to get it,\u201d he told the F1 Nation podcast when asked which McLaren driver he felt would be world champion.<\/p>\n
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