Timo Glock feels Lando Norris is not the 2025 F1 title favourite unless he’s ‘understood’ one thing

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McLaren ace Lando Norris leads the 2025 F1 drivers’ championship again for the first time since April after taking his sixth win of the season in the Mexico City Grand Prix.

The 25-year-old delivered a dominant race on Sunday to win by 30.324 seconds over Ferrari pilot Charles Leclerc at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. It is the biggest winning margin in the 2025 F1 season and it shatters the previous record that Max Verstappen set at Monza.

Norris was in a league of his own as he won the Mexico City GP from pole position to re-take the lead in the F1 drivers’ championship. No rival could challenge the McLaren racer after he retained the lead at the start. Norris now leads Oscar Piastri by only a point in the standings.

Yet despite Norris overturning a 34-point deficit over the past five rounds to now lead Piastri by one point with four rounds to play, Timo Glock will only select the Briton as the clear title favourite if he has now learned one lesson from when he lost the lead of the championship.

Timo Glock will back Lando Norris for the 2025 F1 title if he understands why he could not handle the pressure

Norris opened a 23-point lead over Piastri when he won the 2025 season-opening Australian Grand Prix and his Melbourne native recovered to P9 after spinning out of P2 in the rain. But it only took Piastri four Grands Prix and a Sprint to then lead the championship by 10 points.

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Glock feels Norris wasted his early advantage as the Bristol-born driver could not handle the pressure. But if the McLaren ace now understands why the pressure broke him, then Norris’ dominant Mexico City GP win by 30.324s will now make him the favourite for the 2025 title.

Speaking to Sky Germany, Glock said: “The question now is, will Norris take advantage of his second chance as [the] world championship leader, or will things get a bit shaky again?

“Has he understood why the pressure was too great for him, why he couldn’t ride freely back then? If he’s understood that and now knows how to handle it, then the cards are clearly in his favour.

“But is that so easy? When the helmet is put on and the pressure situation arises, it’s always different than if we’re just standing here.”

Oscar Piastri is making the mistakes that Lando Norris made earlier in the 2025 F1 season

Piastri overturned Norris’ initial 23-point lead in the standings to top the championship after April’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in round five of the 20 held so far. Even after Norris reduced Piastri’s advantage to three, eight and nine points, the Australian was then able to respond.

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But while Piastri punished Norris’ early errors, the shoe is on the other foot. McLaren have seen the latter outscore the former in each of the last five rounds to go from 34 points shy to one ahead. Verstappen has also gone from 104 points behind Piastri to 36 shy of Norris.

Norris admitted he made too many mistakes as Piastri secured his first ever F1 pole in China, while the Briton registered P3 after repeating his errors from Sprint Qualifying when he only managed P6 to the Australian’s P3. Qualifying proved to be a major issue for Norris early on.

On another day when Piastri scored pole, Norris called himself “clueless” after qualifying P6 for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Norris even called himself an “idiot” after qualifying P10 for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, having crashed in Q3 by trying to match Piastri’s speed at Turn 4.

Norris’ mistakes opened the door for Piastri to lead the championship after he won in Saudi Arabia. Yet despite Norris’ retirement from the Dutch Grand Prix in round 15 giving Piastri a 34-point lead, the Australian has since been the McLaren man who has made the mistakes.

Piastri crashed in qualifying and also in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, having failed to forget his mistake of jumping the start. Additionally, Piastri crashed into Norris at the start of the COTA Sprint, before only managing P5 in the United States Grand Prix as his teammate sealed P2.