Lando Norris latest win came with a massive statement over for stappen the fight for the dri Championship is all but over and with 70 points separating these two drivers as well as nine races with three Sprint venues it's game on however the deficit does seem a bit high for Norris to overcome as no driver has ever done so in the history of the sport with such a great following margin but with mcclaren's dominance in zamort being being way too obvious could Norris present us with a 2021 like season and if so how can the stars align for the maen championship of the Brit it's safe to say that McLaren is entering every race right now as the clear favorite regardless of the nature of the track and this is the first thing that we must say about this video because it's something that Norris can count on for the last nine races in 2024 whether it's a street circuit like Baku and Singapore or a low downforce one like Monza it shouldn't be too big of a problem for McLaren given that they've dunked a 21 second lead on verstappen's home race and had they not botched the strategy for piastri it could have been an even greater embarrassment for Red Bull who seem to have lost their way in the midseason development this is the factor that Mclaren has and Red Bull doesn't working upgrades before xan for helmet Marco stated that it seems like the upgrades they brought to the team with the greater emphasis being put on Hungary do seem a lot more like downgrades to the car which was the primary reason they moved back to the barain spec floor for the zamort circuit and if we to look at the results they say it all for stappen is now a lone wolf in between two McLaren drivers potentially two Mercedes drivers if they manage to figure out the struggles and occasionally a Ferrari contender in the name of lir or signs on the other hand McLaren woes do not seem nearly as strong as the ones of Red Bull because in Hungary we've listened to a radio message that was very loud and clear Norris would need his teammates help in the fight for the championship therefore a battle between these two is unlikely to happen in the remainder of the nine races if Norris continues with this great performance like in zamort and Jose foren has been adamant that Red Bull needs to do something quick in order to provide the best possible Machinery to his son in the quest for the fourth championship as the father of Max went on to say McLaren is going like a rocket we are doing everything we can to close the gap but we haven't succeeded yet I also saw this coming a bit the updates are there but don't do much Reed bull has to pull out all the stops to improve the title in the driver Championship is not a certainty you never have certainties Max is doing everything he can to score as many points as possible but it's not a certainty on the other hand helmet Marco was not very optimistic about what is coming to Red Bull and while he did mention the upgrades are well on their way the pace that the MCL 38 had today was unmatchable from not just for stappen but anyone on the grid with such a performance of Norris it was quite hard to understand why piastri wasn't second but with a poor strategy as well as the car not behaving as it should in dirty air Reed bull could learn a lot about the Archilles heal of McLaren and maybe use foran's knowledge in turning it against the working base Squad as they did not have a lot of hope that Perez can be a factor in the driver's Championship quest for his teammate adding to the remainder of the 2024 season Marco said Norris now has the speed to catch Max in the championship we have to find something there is something in the pipeline but McLaren is very fast Red Bull have definitely aggravated for stappen with the downgrades and according to VI play when they were escorting for sta into the podium he said that he is not happy with the car's behavior and there will be a lot to talk about after this race it implies that he will have to drive 120% of himself in order to keep this lead of 70 points in his hands but if we to look at the remainder of the calendar finishing P2 for vapen would be much harder than finishing P1 for Norris so the gap of 70 points should narrow down quite quickly in the next three races in Monza Baku and Singapore apart from these three we have six more to visit which means that in a best case scenario from McLaren and Red Bull the one-w finish of xanor is repeated nine more times excluding sprint races and that would result in Norris being just seven points behind for stappen in the driver's Championship even if we are to add three more Sprint wins for nris and P2 finishes for ven that would be a hurtful four-point difference in the favor of the Dutch however to predict this is very farfetched and quite frankly given how Mclaren has dominated zamort it's more likely that piastri would have a higher possibility of finishing P2 in many of these races than vapen which would put the Dutchman in a very difficult position to defend the championship the downfall of Red Bull is definitely present and even Herer admitted that adding downfalls to the car might not have been the best thing to do in terms of following the right path of development of the RB 20 there is the internal power struggle of course as well as the departure of Nei and wheatle that they have to deal with and all in all 2024 is shaping up to be a very interesting and rather competitive season for McLaren and Red Bull but as I mentioned earlier in the video Norris would need a lot more than 10 consecutive race wins and three Sprint race wins in order to win the championship he would need the help of his teammate of course we can talk about how that same teammate stole seven points from him in Hungary due to a team play but that's irrelevant now that the race is in the past Norris has also made a lot of mistakes in tracks in which he should have cut down the lead to fapen with Canada Spain Britain and Spa being the most obvious ones what is worth mentioning is that had Norris done everything the way he should have the Gap to vapen would be more around the 40o Gap but again this is where the fapen factor counts in and this is where the Championships come to light as the entire team was on fire in events like Silverstone where the stappen was poised to finish P5 or P6 judging by the first half of the race but ended up P2 and close to a P1 fight with Hamilton due to a proper strategy this is something that McLaren needs to work on because leaving piastri too late has enabled llaa to pull an undercut move to both him and Russell and while piastri was able to get past Russell he wasn't able to complete a pass on the monasi driver and try to hunt down for stappen to Aid his teammate with three more points in the driver's Championship while the constructors are now a question of when not if for McLaren as they've shed down 12 more points from Red Bull and are just 30 points behind the Milton keing base squad zanor has opened up their eyes about a potential fight in the dri Championship which can be enabled by the fact that Mclaren has produced a car that delivers deathly precise and Ultra ra fast performance everywhere the Caravan is going while this opens up the 2024 season entirely and gives us the opportunity to watch the most interesting campaign ever since the 2021 nail-biting end between Hamilton and vapen it's also a huge indicator for the future 2025 couldn't come sooner and it's now very obvious that Red Bull will have a massive deficit compared to where they used to start the seasons during the newly regulated era when fapen dunked around 50 seconds of Advantage compared to Norris in the first race in Bahrain in 2024 13 races later and Norris managed to finish a race on pure Pace 21 seconds ahead of fen which just goes to show that McLaren might be the only team on the grid that is able to add performances on the car and make them work as every other squad on the grid has struggled with the synchronization of the upgrades and the cars performance the biggest question that Red Bull would have to answer to themselves is whether or not they have enough to keep for stappen Bay because a competitive driver like him wouldn't be very happy in a toxic and nonworking environment like the one that's currently ravaging Red Bull with all this in mind though it would be interesting to see whether teams like Mercedes and Aston Martin would appear to be interesting enough for ven's next step in his career as it's now inevitable that Red Bull are far away from the fastest team on the grid and if this Downs slope continues it would bring much worse things to the squad so do you think that Norris has what it takes to win his Maiden championship in the last nine races of the season and if so would you label this as the greatest comeback in the history of the sport let us know what you think in the comments below and once you do that check out the video that's appearing on 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