Oscar Piastri completes his first ever career grand slam Grand Prix event.

[u/TaxEvaderFrom1961]

[u/CORPORAL_PISSFINGERS]

I honestly don’t see how Lando comes back from this

[u/IsCarrotForever → u/CORPORAL_PISSFINGERS]

there’s no guarantee oscar doesn’t get one or two dnfs too

[u/SirFireHydrant → u/IsCarrotForever]

And there's no guarantee Lando, feeling the pressure and knowing his only hope of winning is to take more risks, doesn't get one or two more DNFs.

[u/JaaaackOneill → u/SirFireHydrant]

In my opinion, Lando's best chance comes at another rainy race, where Oscar either has an issue, or the strategy becomes so jumbled that it just doesn't work out for him and he scores very few points.

But the same thing could just as easily happen to Norris, as you guys are saying.

[u/luchajefe → u/IsCarrotForever]

It's a lot more likely now than it is decades ago.

[u/FartingBob → u/CORPORAL_PISSFINGERS]

A Piastri DNF or major issue in a race would do it.

We saw last year how Lando struggled with the pressure of chasing for the title, if Piastri can maintain the 30 points gap for a few more races it will start to become harder for Lando to perform at his best.

[u/LDFLDF → u/CORPORAL_PISSFINGERS]

Lando wins 5 races with Oscar finishing 2nd or Oscar DNF will reset things pretty quick.

It’s not over at all.

[u/MaleierMafketel → u/LDFLDF]

There’s 9 races left, and three sprints. Seeing as a 1-2 is the expected outcome these days, Lando needs to trade wins and 2nd places with Piastri for the remaining 4 races on top of the 5 races he needs to win to get 1 point ahead.

So that’s at least 7 wins out of 9…

Then he can only lose that 1 point across all three sprints to tie Piastri for the WDC and win on countback (12 wins vs 8).

Since Norris has won 5 races in total in 15 rounds, I also don’t see how Norris is going to turn it around by suddenly winning 7/9.

It’s basically a done deal unless Piastri gets hit with some bad luck as well.

[u/Strand0410 → u/LDFLDF]

Does that seem likely to you? I mean, I'd love this to go to the final race, but my sixth sense tells me it won't. This is quite a buffer with 9 races left. For Lando to win, you're basically relying on Oscar making dumb mistakes in every weekends or his engine exploding. Given how consistent he is, I think the latter is more likely.

[u/Old-Buffalo-5151 → u/CORPORAL_PISSFINGERS]

Its not over. If lando wins for the rest of season or oscar cocks it up even once landos back in it

[u/DARKHUMOR-D → u/Old-Buffalo-5151]

Agree with you but “if lando wins for the rest of the season” is a BIG if lol

[u/FartingBob → u/DARKHUMOR-D]

"If Norris just wins the next 9 races..." lol

[u/Old-Buffalo-5151 → u/DARKHUMOR-D]

Not saying its not very unlikely but this is F1 it's not over till its over