Lando Norris' win puts $250k bet placed on Max Verstappen one step closer to losing

It's shaping up to beryllium a thrilling climax to the 2024 F1 season, but 1 spectator who whitethorn not beryllium truthful blessed that's the lawsuit is the 1 who's got a six-figure stake riding connected the rubric outcome

Lando Norris is turning up the vigor connected Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds and his hefty $250,000 wager connected Max Verstappen clinching the F1 title.

With six races to go, including 3 sprints, Norris has slashed Verstappen's pb to a specified 52 points with his stellar show astatine the Singapore Grand Prix. He turned rod into a commanding win, finishing astir 21 seconds up of his rival.

Norris is mounting the signifier for a nail-biting finale to the 2024 season, which mightiness not beryllium welcomed by Dodds, who earlier this twelvemonth confidently stake astir £188k connected Verstappen securing his 4th world championship. "99 per cent helium gets that trophy," helium boldly claimed successful a TNT Sports interview.

"I'll archer you what, truthful if helium doesn't triumph it, determination are 19 different drivers, if immoderate 1 of the different 19 drivers wins it, we'll springiness a 4th of a cardinal dollars to the foundation of prime of the different operator that wins it."

Having antecedently lambasted the deficiency of contention successful F1, with Verstappen easy bagging the 2022 and 2023 titles pursuing his contentious archetypal triumph implicit Lewis Hamilton, Dodds is possibly regretting his words arsenic Norris continues to defy the expected script.

He'd continued: "It wouldn't beryllium the worst time successful the bureau to springiness a load of wealth to charity. But absolutely, helium is nailed connected to triumph that season, which is wherefore for maine arsenic a fan, oregon arsenic a instrumentality of Formula E and Formula 1 - I cognize I'm going to crook up to Sao Paulo, I tally Formula E, you're successful the presumption squad there, neither of america person immoderate thought who's going to triumph that race, right?

"So I'm rather excited by that. I cognize arsenic a Formula One fan, this season's astir to start, and yeah, I'll ticker it and the fanfare and everything that goes with it, but I perfectly already cognize who's winning. You can't triumph 19 retired of 21 races successful 1 season, spell successful the disconnected season, spot of improvement connected the cars, travel backmost for the adjacent 1 and not triumph it. I conscionable can't spot it."

Norris' triumph successful Singapore is his 3rd of the season, with Verstappen's tally of 7 keeping him successful the pb but lone narrowly. Unfortunately for McLaren, Daniel Ricciardo snatched the fastest thigh constituent distant from them successful Red Bull's sister car.

While it's lone a solitary point, it does mean Verstappen tin spend to decorativeness 2nd to Norris successful each the remaining races and inactive triumph the championship. They tin some present retrieve with an extended interruption earlier the United States GP connected October 20.