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Lando Norris did not just win in Brazil, he owned the weekend. Sprint and grand prix, start and restart, the McLaren driver extended a run of form that has flipped the championship narrative since the summer. On Sky Sports the verdict was blunt. “He has the title with one hand already,” said Karun Chandhok, praising the blend of speed and control that now defines Norris’s campaign.
Momentum and method
The difference since Zandvoort is stark. Back then Oscar Piastri looked like the unchallenged leader at McLaren, helped by Norris’s DNF. Since then Norris has tidied the rough edges, finished ahead of his team-mate at every turn and executed dominant wins in Mexico and Brazil. Jamie Chadwick highlighted the temperament behind the points. “He stays critical of himself and does not get carried away. Hold this form and he gets it done,” she said.
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The numbers and the feel
With three races to go Norris leads Piastri by 24 points and Verstappen by 49, a cushion built on relentlessly maximising the package beneath him. Chandhok called out the completeness of the picture, not merely the scoreboard, emphasising how Norris and McLaren are working as a single, efficient unit under pressure. “Championship material,” was his assessment, a phrase that carries weight because it recognises what fans see as well as what data says.
What can stop him
Only chaos, injury or mechanical failure would appear to threaten the trajectory. McLaren’s operational sharpness has reduced the number of ways they can lose by their own hand. Norris, for his part, looks every inch the driver who can carry a lead without shrinking into conservatism. The final swing of the season always asks a question of nerve as much as pace. Right now, Norris looks like he has both.
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