Author: Jake Connellan

Last weekend in Brazil felt like a defining point in this year’s F1 Drivers World Championship. After spending the first two-thirds of this season being outclassed by his teammate – former F2 and F3 champion Oscar Piastri – the fact that Lando Norris leaves São Paulo with a 24-point lead in the standings seemed near unfathomable six races ago, when he sat among the dunes watching his engine go up in smoke. His performances since that Zandvoort DNF have certainly gone under the radar compared to Max Verstappen’s ominous autumn form, but recently, as the Red Bull car has started…