Lando Norris says his crash in the Canadian Grand Prix was the most obvious point in the season where he missed an opportunity to score more points.

The McLaren driver goes into the final round of 2025 needing at least 14 points to clinch the world championship. However he lost 10 when he crashed out of fifth place while trying to pass team mate Oscar Piastri in Montreal.

Norris has lost further points since then, notably when his car broke down in Zandvoort and when he and Piastri were disqualified for a technical infringement at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. However he said Canada stands out as his most obvious mistake.

“There’s always little things along the way,” said Norris. “Of course there are probably some more obvious ones from my side.

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“If I go back to Canada, probably [that was] the most ‘put my hands up in the air, I messed up’ [moment]. It cost me a good amount of points.

“There was China, the hairpin in qualifying. And then just some little things along the way, probably like there is for everyone – there certainly is for everyone.”

“At times you get a bit unlucky,” he added, “whether it was the DNF in Zandvoort or the disqualification – that’s not unlucky, that’s just not doing really a good enough job as a team – but the disqualification in Vegas as well cost me a good amount of points.”

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McLaren’s strategic error in last weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix also cost Norris points, he said. “[There] was just a couple parts from my side that I have to put my hands up and admit I didn’t do a very good job and then a couple from us as a team where we have to admit we also didn’t do a good enough job – including last weekend. But that’s probably about it.”

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Norris’s two title rivals were reluctant to specify where they felt they had missed opportunities to score more points during 2025. “At the end of the day, it’s won over 24 races,” said Max Verstappen.

“Some races go a bit better than others. A lot of the races we didn’t have a lot of pace or enough pace to challenge for a win. But here we are. In general I’m just very proud of the season that we’ve done, how we’ve come back as well in the second half.”

“To pinpoint on one particular moment or whatever, that’s always a hard one,” he added.

Piastri admitted: “there’s a few moments to choose from, unfortunately.”

“But I think for for everyone there’s always moments and no season is ever going to be perfect,” he added. “So I think it’s not particularly useful picking out ‘I lost this amount of points here, this amount of points there’, because everyone’s lost a certain amount of points at some point along the way.

“But definitely on my side of things there’s been a few races or a few moments I’d like to have again. Same thing as the team, I’m sure. But picking one, I don’t think there’s one that’s hurt more than others.”

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