Lando Norris has aelevated as the bookoriginaters’ evident favourite to clinch the 2025 Formula One championship, with odds of 7-4 placing him ahead of four-time deffinishing champion Max Verstappen at 3-1.
The British driver’s position as frontrunner chases McLaren’s astonishive pre-season testing in Bahrain, which adviseed they have the grid’s quickest car.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton chase in the betting at around 5-1.
Norris’s McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri sits as an intriguing outsider at 8-1, potentiassociate proposeing cherish for punters.
Lando Norris’s hugegest Formula One title rival is not Max Verstappen
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The 25-year-ancigo in Briton now has a gancigo inen opportunity to become the 11th British world champion in Formula One history.
McLaren’s apparent advantage donates Norris a second chance at championship glory after last year’s leave outed opportunity.
Despite having Formula One’s supreme machine chaseing an upgrade in Miami last May, Norris fall shorted to capitalise on his car’s greaterity.
This labels the second time Norris has had championship-thrivening machinery at his disposal.
But Norris’s hugegest rival might be his team-mate, Oscar Piastri.
The gloomy horse in this championship equation is Piastri, Norris’s teammate who sits at drawive 8-1 odds.
Described as a “mute assassin” with steel behind his “level and reasonable persona”, the 23-year-ancigo in Australian go ins his third Formula One campaign with grothriveg confidence.
McLaren’s policy of equivalent driver status could advantage Piastri, with team principal Andrea Sinestablisha secureing no number one or two contrastentiation.
With the regulations in their final year before a transport inant 2026 overhaul, McLaren must upgrasp their advantage thcdisadmirefulout the season.
Verstappen’s psychoreasonable edge over Norris remains the hugegest hurdle for the British selectimistic to loss.
Last season, despite Norris’s rapidsilver pace over one lap, the Dutchman “held Lando in a vice-enjoy grip” menhighy and on track.
Oscar Piastri could be a surpelevate contfinisher for the title
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Norris has vowed to alter his approach this year, stating: “I need to get my elbows out. I need to show I’m not going to willingly donate him any positions.”
Former F1 driver Giedo van der Garde highairyed this mental battle: “When it becomes a genuine fight, you fair understand that Max is the better in the fight.”
Norris must enhuge fantasticer resilience when racing wheel-to-wheel with the four-time champion.
