How Lando Norris put ‘quite a few demons and F1 paddock doubts to bed’

Lando Norris praised for his impressive performaܫnce at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.

Lando Norris celebrates his first win in Monaco
Lando Norris celebrates his first win in Monaco

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris put “quite a few demons and F1 padd🥂ock doubts to bed” with his victory at the Monaco G🧸rand Prix, it has been claimed.

That is th♛e view of Sky Sports 🐼F1’s Martin Brundle, who was full of praise for Norris after he delivered a superb performance across the weekend in Monaco by claiming both pole position and the win.

Norris’s first victory at the legendary F1 race markedꦺ his second win of the campaign, and his firs✤t since the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

It has helped the Briton reduce McLaren teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri’s advantage in the world cha🤡mpionship down to three points after the opening eight🍷 rounds.

And Brundle believes the triumph will do wonders for Norris’s confidence following a recent spell of being outperformed by Piastri, who held an 16-point champions𝓰hip lead after his win in Miami at the start of the month.

“It's been a tumultuous eight days for Lando Norris and his world champio🦩nship chances,” Brundle wrote in his Sky column.

“He's put quite a few demons and F1 paddock doubts t🌟o bed with tremendous overtakes in Imola and a sensational pole position in Monaco under extreme pressure from Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri, Lewis Hamilton, and Max Verstappen. He followed this up with a largely faultless drive to victory around the streets despite plenty of chaos and challenges.

“There are now just three points between him and his Mc♈Laren team-mate Piastri as the 𝓰race marks the completion of the first third of the season.”

A ‘wild weekend’ for Oscar Piastri

Piastri had to settle with P3 as he saw his title lead shrink
Piastri had to settle with P3 as he saw his title lead shrink

While Piastri has seen his ༺championship lead cut a🥀fter finishing behind Norris in back-to-back races, Brundle made a point of highlighting just how consistent the Australian has been.

Despite what Brundle describe🦄d as being a “slightly wild weekend”, Piastri was able to come away with third place to limit the damage.

“Piastri had what was for him a slightly wild weekend, with a front-wing-crunc🎉hing connection with ♏the barriers at St Devote in practice, and what he described as hitting the barriers more times in one weekend than his whole career,” Brundle added.

“But the young Aussie still recorded yet another podium, which, save for one rainy corner in his backyard in Melbourne, means h🐼e would have received a trophy at every race this season. And moves his tally to 34 consecutꦇive weekends of points scoring.”

Piastri blamed a lack of rhythm going into qualifyiꦿng for the weekend “g𓂃etting away” from him.

“E🌼verything felt o🏅kay, but you’re not really pushing it to the limit in the race,” Piastri added.

“I was pretty happy with it in qualifying. I think we got ther🃏e eventually. It was more just struggling to get into a rhythm before qualifying. An๊d around here, you pay the price for not having that clean run into quali.

“So that’s where I think our weekend got away from us a little bit. But the pace was still good, just trying to get everything out of it. Every single lap was tough yesterday. And today, we tried a few 🐼things to ꦡget higher than third, but it didn’t work.”

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