Mexican GP: Norris to the fore as championship picture changes once more
The Race F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Edd Straw and Scott Michell-Malm (both in Mexico) are joined by Jon Noble to discuss the Mexican Grand Prix, and a race which changed the championship picture once more.
They share their thoughts on Lando Norris's faultless victory, 'damage limitation' performances by Norris's title rivals Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen, and stand-out drives by Charles Leclerc and Ollie Bearman.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | The Race is on, and Lando Norris took the lead of the World Championship for the first time since April, with a dominant victory in the Mexican Grand Prix, but Max Verstappen is now just 36 |
| 0:21.4 | points behind, and with Oscar Piastri limiting the damage on a tough weekend with fifth, |
| 0:25.2 | he's still right up there too. But does this mean there's a new championship favourite, |
| 0:29.5 | and why was McLaren back on top again after its recent struggles? I'm Ed Strawn, and |
| 0:33.7 | with me to tell all, as Scott Mitchell Malm and John Noble. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to the Race F1 podcast presented by eBay. Scott in Austin, it was all about Max Rastappen forcing himself |
| 0:44.7 | into title contention, but how much did Lando Norris need this win? He needed it a lot. I think he, |
| 0:51.3 | by his own admission on Thursday when we arrived in Mexico City, said that while he's been gaining on Piastri, he hasn't been winning. |
| 0:59.0 | And he said it with a smile on his face. |
| 1:00.4 | It wasn't the admission of someone who was particularly worried or feeling like that they weren't doing enough to maybe win this championship. |
| 1:08.6 | But it wasn't like he'd charged into the picture or, |
| 1:12.6 | you know, been taking massive chunks out of pastry when he could. So that was very much something |
| 1:17.6 | Norris was aware of. And I think the manner of the weekend as a whole, not just the win, |
| 1:23.6 | but just, you know, the pace he had, the ease he seemed to be driving with, the comfort in |
| 1:28.3 | the car, even though he missed FP1, obviously, Patois Ward drove, as McLaren fulfilled that mandatory |
| 1:33.2 | requirement, the qualifying gap, the, just everything, the start, the way he handled that |
| 1:39.6 | tricky run down to the first corner, and then just scampered into the distance thereafter. This was |
| 1:45.3 | an absolutely massive statement of intent. Norris's best weekend of the season by far, in my |
| 1:51.3 | opinion. And I would, I would say actually a contender to be his outright best weekend in Formula One. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah, certainly right up there. John, would you go so far as to say that |
| 2:01.8 | we've got a new championship favourite again? I don't know if we can say it's a championship |
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