Max verstappen feels it is no longer feasible for himself and Red Bull Racing to win the championship following the Italian Grand Prix for stappen was 610 behind poit Orlando Norris on Saturday only qualifying in seventh and moved up only one spot during Sunday's race if you want to stay up to dat on the latest F1 news remember to subscribe to the GP fans Global Channel by hitting the Subscribe button underneath this video that way you'll always know when we upload new content now that that's out of the way let's crack on with the video it was verstappen's worst qualifying result since Singapore last season when he missed outs on Q3 and his jointed worst race result this year also finishing sixth at the Monaco Grand Prix when Charlotte Clair won as well while redbor and verstappen are still leading both championships with eight races to go the Dutchman feels it is imminence before he and his team will get swallowed up by others at the moment both championships are not realistic I've said a lot and now it's up to the team to come with a lot of changes with the car because we basically went from a very dominant car to an undrivable car in the space of 6 to 8 months so that is very weird for me and we really need to turn the car upside down with how we are at the moment we are bad everywhere so we need a lot of changes speaking of the championship let's check out the driver standings after 16 rounds like we said Max stappen still leads the pack with 303 points although his Advantage is slimm down to 62 points to second place Lando Norris who has 241 race winner lir is now just 24 points behind Norris on 27 while fourth place Oscar piastri has moved up to 197 points 44 behind his teammate debutant Franco kapino finished 12th for Williams already taking in pass valter Bas whose best result on the season is only 13th the Silver Lining from verin's weekend is that his main Championship rival Lando Norris only finished in third place Norris started the race from po position but was passed by Oscar piastri and charl Clair in the opening lap Norris has warned pastri about the nature of his move claiming that the Aussie could have taken both McLarens out of the race on another day after securing back-to-back pole positions for the first time in his career Norris stayed ahead off the line un likee all his other race starts from pole in 2024 however piastri surprised Norris completing a gutsy overtake for the race lead into turn four that allowed charl Clair pass Norris as well it proved to be a race defining moment and something that Norris was not a fan of given his championship aspirations I feel he got way too close for comfort we could both have easily been out in that first Corner if I broke one meter later if I could rewind I would do stuff slightly differently but it is what it is sha won by 2 seconds in the end and the fact he got ahead probably gained him two seconds over the course of the race leis Hamilton thinks McLaren's strategy decisions cost them the race win Hamilton finished the afternoon in fifth place for Mercedes but could not help but feel that his former team left a one-w finish on the table because of their Tire management Hamilton's teammate next year sha lir started the race in third behind both papaya orange cars but his One-Stop strategy combined with skillful Tire management worked perfectly compared to the safer two-stop McLaren opted for with both cars the seven time world champion believe McLaren cost themselves the victory on Sunday I think McLaren had the Pace they just pushed too hard Hamilton told Sky Sports F1 they were doing much too fast laps early on and killed the tires and I guess they literally had planned for a two-stop that's why they were pushing so hard if they just backed off and gone longer they could for sure have made a one stop but I could tell I was getting the information of the times they were doing and there's no way your tires are going to last at that pace so that's it your Monday news Roundup for all the latest in the world of F1 don't forget to follow us everywhere and I'll see you next time