Lando Norris WINS! 🏆 | Are McLaren F1 title contenders? | Sky Sports F1 Podcast

Lando’s first win and SkySports is talking F1 championship for McLaren. Let’s just take a breath enjoy Lando’s win and win again. When McLaren pulls even with RedBull then you can dream.

Chandhok and Pulling are the only ones who are telling the truth. Chandhok is right, the new engine regs will lead to one team dominating initially. Mercedes did the same thing.

Congratulations Abbi Pulling 🎉

I hope Sky has abandoned its studio format. The coverage was much better with the presentation team at the venue conveying the atmosphere, etc. It helped that it was a good race and a feel-good weekend seeing Lando get his first win.

Abbi is so well spoken and provides so much to the conversation. Well done to her and the championship!

Congrats Abbi!! Karun and Natalie, I think that Lando won’t be disliked, just like Jenson wasn’t!! It’s that Somerset vibe!!!!!

LANDOOO your a formula one race winner 🎉🎉🎉

A win is a win. Safety car etc are part of the sport. Opportunity arose and he caught it. It’s a legit win. This is similar to motogp last week when Quartararo got third place during sprint race (got taken away after penalty) on his slow Yamaha. People argued that he was lucky bc many riders in front of him crashed themselves out. Well, he didnt crash. So kudos to him.

love Natalie but sorry, Karun has nailed it! Love and have loved McLaren all of my 62 years. So pleased for Lando and the team but, I want to watch them fighting for the win, not dominating! Level the playing field! Allow more time between regulation changes. Allow teams time to update their correlations with their track time, wind tunnel and CFD. Give us racing not global politics. We've been here before! It starts to get competitive then... The battle between Max and Lewis that should have been, has been lost to change! F1 is a strange sport! We want our gladiators on four wheels ,"Lando", battling each other for best part of hour and a half, who cares who wins. Best man wins on the day! True racing fans 😁! Delay the regulation change please F.I.A. 🥰

Pinkham needs to make up her mind. You want closer racing but you also want the regs to change so Redbull doesn't dominate. Can't have both. Karun is right...they should delay the regs by a year or two. Mostly because we're already into May and they haven't agreed on the full framework yet. Just postpone it and let us enjoy the racing with these ground effects cars.

I understand what karun's saying but honestly its not possible to push back the regs because sauber doesn't have any engine deal for 26. They are banking on audi for the new engine. So if regs are pushed back one team will be left without an engine

Wonder why Abbi's name is not in the title of the video? Plenty of options for this to have been made so, you have a driver on the show /rant

Well done Abbi, also so eloquent and sensible with the comments in this podcast. Also, well done Lando, I hope the performance improvement continues 🏁🇬🇧

Well done Abbi we enjoyed watching you in Miami what a weekend, it was well worth the trip for us!

As papaya fan, championship is still 'far' away lets not get carried away

I think max is relieved he now has a challenger

Sainz won't be left without a seat for 2025. IMO there's only 2 drivers coming into F1 for 2025, Bearman and Antonelli, and there's likely to be at least 2 leaving, Zhou and Sargeant & maybe more. Yes, he might end up missing out on a seat at Red Bull or Sauber, but I think Haas or Alpine would always be open for him

I would love an upcloss picture of Karuns bookshelf!! Congratulations Lando and Abbi.🎉🎉🎉

As someone who has attended the race at COTA numerous times and European races, the ticket prices for Vegas and Miami are just ridiculous for what you get. COTA isn’t cheap, but you can still get grandstand seats for ~$700 a piece. And unlike Miami, the elevation changes actually makes decent GA viewing possible. Miami (and even Vegas) has the potential to a good race for the foreseeable future, but the complete focus on VIP guests is just sad, while normal people paying thousands bake in the grandstand. At minimum, more shade and cooling areas need to be considered for regular ticket holders. And the miserable heat and lack of shade isn’t isolated to Miami, it was 90 degrees at COTA during the sprint last year, and tents were so crowded that it was just as hot in there. The “show” isn’t the problem, as good racing is still occurring, it just highlights how little regard is shown to regular race attendees, whether it’s no shade, too few bathrooms, concessions that run out a couple hours into the day, or missing 10-15 laps waiting in line to buy a drink… all of which you can count on when attending a race in the grandstands/GA (At least in the US). Then again, Maybe my perspective is jaded because I know what it’s like to attend races that aren’t overly commercialized “shows.”(which is what Vegas and Miami are, quality of racing aside)

With RB hogging everything for so long we should be exaggerating after someone else has finally won a race where Max clearly got rattled and he didn't have the capabilities to overtake 10 cars in 2 laps.