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NATALIE PINKHAM

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PIastri and Norris are opposites, who’ll take the title?

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McLaren has finally produced a car capable of winning a championship but has a driver pairing in Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris that goes about their craft in very different ways. Question is, who’s more likely to take their maiden drivers’ title?

Oscar Piastri – the cerebral assassin. He races like he’s solving a complex puzzle at 200mph. Methodical, calm and precise, he makes very few mistakes. Andrea Stella’s described him as having “no noise” in his head, clinical from lights out to chequered flag.

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