Going into the new Formula One season, so much attention was being placed on Lando Norris as the championship favorite. McLaren’s surge to last year’s constructors’ championship was spearheaded by Norris,

Oscar Piastri took victory at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to move into the lead of the Formula 1 drivers’ championship. The McLaren man sealed his third win of the season, going back to back after taking the chequered flag in Bahrain last week as he benefitted from an early penalty against polesitter Max Verstappen.

The Briton, who had finished fourth in Saudi Arabia, had said: “Red Bull are just as quick in qualifying. They're just as quick as us in the race. Just because we're quick in practice, people just keep coming up with all this this crap.