F1: Lando Norris and his unusual error with Oscar Piestri in the Canada GP

The English failed again in Montreal and this time almost drags his teammate in McLaren. He quickly apologized on the radio, but his internal position was marked.

The Canada Grand Prix, tenth dates of the 24 scheduled for the 2025 season, could be a turning point in the battle for the title of pilots. Just on the first occasion of the year in which the podium ceremony had no representative of McLaren, doors inside the Woking team may have finished twisting the road to number one. Lando Norris made his mistake number … is difficult to tell them now. The English awaited patient that the British team managed to design a car that would allow him to fight for the title and, when he finally has it, his constant mistakes are sheltering his image and destroying his dream. In Montreal, he was about to leave Oscar Piastri, his partner.

YoBan 67 of the 70 laps agreed and the Australian, leader of the World Cup, was traveling in fourth place, followed by Norris. Piastri folded open in the tenth curve (the fork) and the English surpassed it in the middle of the variant. At the exit, the Melbourne matched him and had the rope, both thoroughly and with open DRs. Thus they reached the link of the 13-14, with the wall of the champions in sight, and Piastri won the position. Finished maneuver. But on the main line, the unusual error of the Lando arrived: he wanted to put in the grass, touched the MCL39 of Piastri and ended up hitting the lateral wall. Abandonment of Norris and security car until the end.

Quickly Norris apologized by radio and assumed to blame. But that does not exonerate it. A pilot who is struggling for the title, who has the best car in the category and does not stop committing errors. His extraordinary Monaco weekend seemed to mark the end of errors and the beginning of a firm stage of Norris, but did not happen. In Montreal, by case, he failed in his first attempt at Q3 (he cut the final chicana) and then hilvanó a series of small errors in the final lap and was in the seventh drawer. The team opted with him for a different strategy, to alleviate his failure on Saturday, and throw him overboard.

“I simply did not expect to advance Oscar on the outside in curve 1. I should never have tried, it is only a matter of retrospective. I thought I was starting to deviate a little to the right, so I had the opportunity to go to the left. But if. Too much risk, especially for my teammate. I’m glad that nothing has happened and that I have paid the price of my error. Our number one rule is not to touch my teammate, and that is what I did. McLaren is my family, I run for them. Every weekend, I try to do well for them, more than I often try to do it well for me. So when I disappoint them like this, and when I make a fool of yourself at a time like today, yes, I regret something like that, ”said Norris.

Piastri, faithful to his granitic style in which he does not demonstrate feelings, he said: “Lando made a rather large advancement in curve 10, and I was firm in the Chicana. Without a doubt, it was a difficult battle, but clean until that moment. I did not see the incident, but I do not think there was any bad intention involved, I think it was simply unfortunate, actually.”

Andrea Stella, Team director (Zak Brown, the CEO, was not in Canada because he traveled at 24 hours in Le Mans), was clear: “Our rules establish that the couple can compete, but they simply should not have a contact. It is true that the touch occurred by a calculation error; Lando simply calculated the distance with the car in front of it. Certainly there was no bad intention. But this cost him a lot in the championship”. To confession from the part… Canada may have begun to mark the end of the battle for the 2025 World Cup and that goes beyond the 22 points that Piastri took out.