Deconstructing Norris's 2025 struggles + Austria preview
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We delve into the reasons why Lando Norris has gone from title favourite to very much second-best to McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in 2025 in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes join Edd Straw to run through the four reasons why Norris has fallen behind and discuss whether these trends will continue or can be changed.
We also answer a batch of questions from The Race Members’ Club on Norris versus Piastri, including asking whether the latter has got the mental battle won.
In the final part of the podcast, we look ahead to the Austrian Grand Prix and assess the chances of Red Bull, Mercedes or even Ferrari threatening favourite McLaren.
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| 1:26.5 | The race is on. |
| 1:31.1 | And with 10 races down, Lando Norris has gone from title favourite to being very much the outside bet of the two McLaren drivers. So what's gone wrong for him? And does he |
| 1:35.6 | have any chance of turning the tables on Oscar Piastri as the season approaches the halfway mark? |
| 1:40.6 | I'm Edgshaw and joining me to tell all. I'm Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell Mound. |
| 1:46.0 | Well, Scott, we'll come to You First House Life in Stockholm. |
| 1:49.8 | Yeah, pretty good. Thank you. Looking forward to getting out to the Austrian Grand Prix. |
| 1:54.2 | Always a favoured place to go. It reminds me a little bit of home once you get into the sprawling countryside outside of Vienna, it does very much feel like the parts of Sweden that I've now grown to be familiar with. So, yeah, it's a good part of the season. I like this run of European races. Yeah, the Austrian Grand Prix is always a good one, and we'll be looking ahead to that race in the final part of the podcast. And Mark, how are you doing? |
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