It all seemed doom-and-gloom on the 31 August. An oil leak had just put Lando Norris out of the Dutch Grand Prix meaning the McLaren Formula 1 driver was now 34 points behind Oscar Piastri, who won at Zandvoort, in the championship.
The outcome of the 2025 title therefore seemed inevitable. Piastri was the driver in form, he’d just scored his seventh win of the year after five podiums on the bounce and was driving as good as ever with many wondering ‘how on earth could he let this opportunity slip’.
