{"id":227515,"date":"2025-06-30T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227515\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:44:11","slug":"norris-urges-silverstone-fans-not-to-cast-piastri-as-villain-at-british-gp-lando-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227515\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris urges Silverstone fans not to cast Piastri as villain at British GP | Lando Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lando Norris has urged fans at Silverstone not to cast his McLaren teammate and world championship rival, Oscar Piastri, as a villain at Sunday\u2019s British Grand Prix. Norris won the Austrian GP in Spielberg<\/a> after a tense, lights-to-flag fight with Piastri, the pair in almost constant competition over 70 laps. Norris held his nerve with great control and closed to within 15 points of the Australian in the title fight<\/p>\n

With McLaren<\/a> so dominant, the drivers\u2019 championship looks to be a two-horse race between the teammates and the team principal, Andrea Stella, said the British driver was in a strong position to back-up his victory in Austria with a first home GP win.<\/p>\n

The fans at Silverstone will largely be on Norris\u2019s side, with the 25-year-old selling out his own 10,000-capacity area at Stowe \u2013 renamed the Landostand, which overlooks Stowe corner \u2013 for the first time.<\/p>\n

When it was suggested that the Australian Piastri could receive a hostile reception from the crowd, Norris said: \u201cI certainly hope that doesn\u2019t happen. The British fans are normally very accepting for all of us, especially at McLaren, so the first point should be for the fans to support everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri, who finished second behind Norris in Spielberg, said: \u201cA couple of years ago they were chanting my name and that was unexpected. I am not sure I will get that again, but they have always been very accepting of me. I race for a British team. I am expecting that there will be more Lando fans than there are for me, but that\u2019s fair enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victory at Silverstone would be the first time Norris has taken back-to-back victories in the same season as well as a maiden home success, and he is well placed to achieve both milestones, according to Stella.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing is that the back-to-back victory is for McLaren and that\u2019s our mindset and that\u2019s our determination going into the British GP,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no reason why not, but many reasons why yes. The talent, the quality, the race craft and even the trajectory Lando is in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris is certainly on a roll with a strong comeback from adversity. At the previous round in Canada, he hit Piastri late in the race and was forced to retire, something McLaren made clear was unacceptable between teammates<\/a>. They acknowledged it was a misjudgement on Norris\u2019s part rather than recklessness and remained confident in their driver and his abilities.<\/p>\n

He came back with a mighty run at the Red Bull Ring to take pole position<\/a> by half a second and then produced an almost flawless race for a win that reasserted his place in the title race.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe speed is there and results will come, which is what Lando demonstrated in Austria,\u201d said Stella. \u201cSo very proud of Lando, very proud of how everyone handled the situation in Canada and that we ended up more united and stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris goes into his home race as favourite, but said he felt no additional pressure from the weight of expectation. \u201cIt\u2019s a place I want to win more than anywhere else, but it doesn\u2019t change anything, it just puts a bit more of a smile on my face every morning when I wake up,\u201d he said. \u201cIt probably distracts me in a good way more than anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s pressure in every race. There was pressure to win on Sunday, to be on pole on Saturday. I don\u2019t think I can put myself under any more pressure. That doesn\u2019t change anything. More just something to look forward to, to enjoy every day, enjoy every lap, enjoy the experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery excited for it. Kind of want to go there now, but I could do with a good sleep as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris has urged fans at Silverstone not to cast his McLaren teammate and world championship rival, Oscar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114774269247593331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}