It’s been a nail-biting year for Lando Norris fans, but what else to expect of a driver cut from a very different cloth to stoic ‘alpha males’ such as his friend Max Verstappen? Norris has never been shy about discussing his demons in public, something that has contributed to the polarisation of debate about the 2025 world championship in the fan space.
And there was plenty for Norris to talk about after what looked like a powerful early strike with victory in Australia began to evaporate as his mojo absented itself in the following rounds. Slip-ups in qualifying in China, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia proved costly, compounded by execution failures in Bahrain.
