What on earth was Lando Norris thinking? The way he collided with Oscar Piastri on lap 67 of the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix looked, frankly, amateurish.
The McLaren driver saw a gap nobody else did – because it wasn’t there – and drove straight into the back of his own team-mate.
My suspicion: after his overtaking attempt in the final corner narrowly failed, he was desperate to capitalise on the speed advantage down the start-finish straight to launch a decisive move into Turn 1. Piastri had braked too late into the chicane and lost momentum trying to avoid going too far over the kerb, so Norris had an opportunity that might not come again.
With DRS open, he tucked into Piastri’s slipstream and would likely have drawn level on the inside – if there had been a way past. But that path didn’t exist because Piastri had positioned himself cleverly.
Norris had already committed, so a collision was inevitable.
