Norris expects Piastri ‘will beat me and be champion in the future’ · RaceFans

December 8, 2025

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Lando Norris tipped his crew mate to win the world championship sooner or later after beating him to the title this 12 months.

The McLaren drivers ended the season separated by 13 factors and received seven grands prix every. Oscar Piastri led the vast majority of the championship earlier than dropping behind Norris and Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen over the ultimate races.

The brand new world champion stated he regards each drivers as among the many finest on the earth and admitted he needed to increase his recreation to beat them following a poor run of outcomes at first of the 12 months.

“I really feel like I’m a greater driver now, definitely, than I used to be at the start of the season,” stated Norris. “Once I’m racing towards Max, a four-time world champion, after I’m racing towards Oscar, a man who sooner or later sooner or later will in all probability beat me and be a world champion, I’m performing.”

Norris has competed in seven seasons to Piastri’s three, and stated he should proceed bettering to beat his rivals.

“I’m having to carry out towards the most effective on the earth and I stay up for a lot extra instances like that. I want to know what I can do higher, how can I do higher, how can I carry out extra constantly towards them and study from them?

“I really feel like I did that this 12 months, and I’ve received to try this much more subsequent 12 months if I need to retain what we’ve been in a position to obtain this 12 months.”

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Piastri stated Norris had been a tricky competitor to go up towards and referred to as him “a really deserving winner” of the championship.

“I do know that each weekend I am going on monitor it’s going to be robust,” he stated. “And I believe we’ve pushed one another by means of the final three years.

“Particularly this season has been tighter than ever. So I believe he’s had an important season. Most likely all three of us [have], however clearly, myself and Lando in the identical crew, in the identical automobile, have had our ups and downs at totally different moments. In the end, I believe he’s had season and is a deserving champion.”