'Oscar has nothing to lose' - 2025 Las Vegas GP Preview with James Hinchcliffe
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Lando Norris leads Oscar Piastri at the top of the World Championship by 24 points. With three races and one F1 Sprint to go, there are still 83 up for grabs.
So how will Lando and Oscar approach this triple header? Hinch shares his thoughts on the mindset of both McLaren drivers and tells Tom why it’s still all to play for despite Lando’s advantage.
Max Verstappen is now 49 points adrift of Lando but, while his title hopes look slim, will he and Red Bull still be fighting for wins and have a say in the championship outcome?
Plus, Ferrari have been on the Vegas podium two years in a row. Could this be the track where they score a first Grand Prix win of the season? After their double DNF in Brazil, Ferrari chairman John Elkann said Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc need to ‘talk less and focus on driving’. How does Hinch think those comments will impact the team?
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| 0:00.0 | You've now got four races in a row where Lando's forum has been fairly exceptional. |
| 0:08.0 | He's driving like a champion, dare I say. |
| 0:10.2 | Minutes after the Grand Prix, he was already like, we weren't fast enough. |
| 0:13.5 | That's the kind of mentality that you need. |
| 0:15.1 | It's got to be a fight, fight, fight approach right now for him. |
| 0:21.3 | Piastri's now got nothing to lose in this championship, has he? |
| 0:23.9 | The pendulum can switch so quickly. |
| 0:27.1 | No one's sleeping well right now, Tom. |
| 0:28.9 | No one's sleeping well. |
| 0:30.3 | Vegas is the last opportunity for Max Verstappen to put down a marker in my book. |
| 0:35.6 | It's still, I think, a situation where Max could win the next three Grand Prix. |
| 0:39.4 | What about Ferrari? |
| 0:41.0 | John Elkin, the boss, says my drivers need to focus more and talk less. |
| 0:46.1 | That's going to set a tone in that team. |
| 0:48.1 | It's not the kind of tone you want to show up to the racetrack with. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome everyone to F1 Nation's preview of the Las Vegas Grand Prix. |
| 0:58.6 | The world title can't be won this weekend, but whatever happens, it will be huge. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm Tom Clarkson and joining me on the show, his F1 TV expert and six-time IndyCar race |
| 1:09.5 | winner James Hinchcliff. Hinch, great to have you on the show again. |
| 1:13.8 | All good after Brazil, first of all. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, thanks for having me, T.C. Always nice to be back. And yes, I mean, what a race. What a race weekend. |
| 1:22.3 | I mean, crazy Grand Prix, crazy sprint race. I don't think, I mean, I say I don't think anybody expected it. |
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