This can be a cruel sport at times. F1 can be intense, competitive, exciting and many other things. But sometimes you can just have rotten luck.
It would be a stretch for Lando Norris to suggest that he could have passed his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri for the win if his car had not failed seven laps before the end of the Dutch Grand Prix. But he was certainly on for 18 points for second place. The championship points gap would have been 16 points with nine races to go.
