Lando Norris has insisted he wouldn’t have won the 2024 Formula 1 title even with a “perfect season” as Red Bull was never as uncompetitive as McLaren at the start. McLaren’s miraculous mid-season turnaround last term saw it end the campaign as the closest contender to Red Bull, but Ferrari assumed the mantle as 2024 began.

It was only in Miami, where Norris took the first win of his Formula 1 career, that anything amounting to a “title fight” kicked off. His McLaren team had brought a comprehensive slate of upgrades to the Miami International Autodrome, and they worked much better than anyone had anticipated.

Sebastian Vettel has made it clear that he is not expecting to make an F1 comeback despite being regularly linked with a return to the grid. The four-time world champion left Aston Martin at the end of 2022 and has tested with Porsche's team for the World Endurance Championship.

Last time out in Las Vegas, Lando Norris and McLaren faced the crushing disappointment as Max Verstappen secured his fourth World title by taking an unassailable 63-point lead in

Max Verstappen, after clinching his fourth consecutive Formula 1 World Championship, made a bold statement, suggesting that he could have secured the title even sooner if he had been driving for McLaren or Ferrari.

Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache has provided a worrying update, warning that Max Verstappen ’s Drivers’ Championship title defence will be anything but straightforward with the team ‘not confident’ about the 2025 season.

Lando Norris has suggested that Max Verstappen would not have won the world championship if faced with the same circumstances that the British star had been handed. The pair, while friends off-track,