Previewing F1's three-race title showdown
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We look ahead to the final triple header that will decide the destiny of the 2025 world championship in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to look at the balance of power between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri and ask if there’s anything the Australian can do to turn the tables on his McLaren team-mate.
The final three tracks are evaluated in terms of how well they are suited to McLaren and the rest, and which ones present Piastri or Norris with the opportunity to make gains.
And with Max Verstappen still mathematically in contention, we ask if there is a realistic chance he can make up the 49-point deficit and where the Red Bull RB21 will have its best opportunities.
We also take a look at the lucrative battle for sixth in the constructors’ championship, and ask if Williams can really rest easy in fifth place.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Race is on, and as F1 heads into the Las Vegas, Qatar, Abu Dhabi triple header that will decide the destiny of the World Championship, |
| 0:19.3 | we ask what twists and turns |
| 0:21.3 | may lie ahead in the battle between on-form Lando Norris and struggling Oscar Piastri. |
| 0:26.4 | Joining me to look ahead to the three events and reveal the real competitive picture are Scott |
| 0:30.6 | Mitchell Maln and Mark Hughes. Right, Scott, Lando Norris, 24 points clear of Piastri, 83 left to play for. |
| 0:38.8 | Is there a way for the Australian to somehow reignite his title campaign? |
| 0:44.3 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 0:45.3 | And he will say this as soon as he speaks in Vegas, I'm sure. |
| 0:48.5 | He needs to win. |
| 0:49.8 | He needs to find a way to start out qualifying and beating Norris again. |
| 0:53.7 | And while the current momentum |
| 0:57.3 | shift has been so, so stuck, and Piastri's apparent slump has been so severe, it might be very |
| 1:05.6 | difficult to see how that can realistically happen, very simple to say and outline what he needs to do very much |
| 1:12.0 | harder to do that in reality. I think you would have, and certainly we, we did when we were |
| 1:16.7 | talking about it. The same could have been said and was said for Lando Norris a couple of months |
| 1:20.6 | ago. He was in what looked to be a very abject position points wise. Piaastri wasn't |
| 1:26.5 | missing any opportunities. He was pretty much |
| 1:28.8 | finishing on the podium every single race and winning every second or third race. So the chances |
| 1:35.0 | of Norris taking big chunks of points out of Piastri seemed quite remote, possible, but remote. |
| 1:41.7 | It's now roles reversed, but've obviously a premium on piastri |
| 1:46.2 | changing things much much quicker because he's he's not got the time and norris has has a |
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