Steiner is with Norris: “He won with merit”. But he warns: “It’s difficult to manage the dualism with Piastri”

Lando Norris’s first title A troubled start to the season, to say the least, did not prevent Lando Norris from becoming world champion for the first time in his career. After struggling and falling 34 points behind teammate Oscar Piastri at the end of the Dutch GP – marred by a retirement due to technical problems on his McLaren – the young English driver managed to reconstruct an attacking championship finale, with few errors and many solid performances that legitimized the title victory, despite the increasingly cumbersome presence of Max Verstappen. Gunther Steiner speaks And even if the Red Bull Dutchman was voted the best driver of 2025 by team principals and colleagues, this does not mean that Lando Norris stole anything. This is the idea of ​​the former Haas boss, Gunther Steiner, interviewed in recent days by the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung: “Norris absolutely deserved the title, I don’t agree with those who say the opposite. During the season we had already given him up for a goner, but he fought courageously until the end, recovered and thus became world champion. He learned his lesson and avoided the mistakes he had made at the beginning of the year.” Ideal situation at Red Bull A decidedly different situation is that at Red Bull, where Max Verstappen will have a new teammate in Isack Hadjar, but where his leadership is certainly not in question: “I think Hadjar is a really good driver, and what’s more he also has the advantage of the new rules. In this way he can start from scratch against Max, while Lawson and Tsunoda got into a car with which Verstappen had a lot of experience and were unable to recover. For Hadjar the conditions are better in this respect, and Red Bull’s aim must be to find a talent who is believed to be capable of becoming almost as good as Max.”