Lando Norris told what he needs to do in ominous 2025 prediction for Max Verstappen

It's anyone's conjecture who volition assertion the 2024 F1 drivers' crown with Lando Norris closing connected Max Verstappen, but Mark Blundell envisages a antithetic hierarchy adjacent season

Mark Blundell predicts Lando Norris volition autumn abbreviated successful his combat against Max Verstappen - but helium reckons it'll beryllium roles reversed successful 2025.

The existent F1 play is gearing up for a thrilling finale with conscionable 4 races and 2 sprints left, starting with the Brazilian Grand Prix this weekend. Norris trails Verstappen by lone 47 points successful the drivers' championship, having shown superior pace recently.

However, clip could beryllium moving retired for the 24-year-old Brit, who knows he'll request near-perfection to person a accidental of claiming his maiden title. Looking ahead, ex-McLaren operator Blundell reckons his erstwhile employers volition beryllium favourites careless adjacent year.

The 58-year-old warned Norris that'll beryllium erstwhile the unit is genuinely connected for him to capitalise. "I'm astir apt going to enactment my cervix retired and I'm really going to spell Verstappen and Red Bull to beryllium the biggest losers successful the '25 season," helium told the Express.

"And I'm going to spell Norris and McLaren to beryllium the biggest gainers. I deliberation there's going to beryllium excessively large a void to capable successful the abbreviated abstraction of clip for Red Bull, seeing wherever they're already astatine with their show levels due to the fact that they've decidedly been eroded by others.

"I'm hopeful that McLaren would person learned capable to really instrumentality the adjacent measurement and past beryllium the car that's the 1 to bushed crossed the season. And past it's down to Norris to get the occupation done."

Questions person been raised astir Norris' slayer instincts, with Red Bull's apical brass Helmut Marko taking repeated swipes astatine him, precocious suggesting they're fortunate it's not Lewis Hamilton down the instrumentality of the McLaren.

Yet, Blundell - who competed successful F1 for 4 seasons - sees this not arsenic a failing connected Norris' part, but alternatively arsenic an knowing that helium and his squad volition lone make done experience. And that's wherefore they could person the borderline implicit their rivals adjacent clip out.

He added: "I deliberation determination are inactive immoderate areas wherever determination needs to beryllium immoderate improvement, but applicable to experience, and I accidental acquisition respectfully wrong the situation of being capable to triumph the championship. And I deliberation Max evidently has had the car astir him and the squad enactment to beryllium capable to bash that connected a much accordant ground and Lando and McLaren are conscionable increasing backmost into that."

"The 1 origin for maine is I deliberation Lando needs to beryllium conscionable a small spot much assertive connected the circuit. That's conscionable a lawsuit of making definite that doors get closed and making definite that there's a small spot much authorization stamped connected the situation. I deliberation that's the lone mode that you'll springiness Max the signals that helium needs to work to cognize that Lando means business."