“Lando Norris’s title campaign just got a little trickier. His DNF at Zandvoort effectively burns his only ‘joker’ for the second half of the year, meaning he can’t really afford any more retirements if he wants to beat Oscar Piastri to the title. The Australian boosted his chances with yet another win, but which score will he have to drop at the end of the season?”
This kind of summary may sound odd to today’s Formula 1 fans, but if the world championship had kept its 1970s-style scoring, the Piastri–Norris battle wouldn’t look as bleak for Norris as the current 34-point gap between the two McLaren drivers suggests.
