After consuming what felt like my very own body weight in turkey, roast potatoes and an allotment’s price of root greens, I settled into the couch to ponder what lies forward in 2025 after one of the vital unpredictable seasons in a long time, and have landed on my 5 daring predictions for the yr forward. Right here goes…
1. Lando Norris will win the drivers’ world championship
Lando Norris did me a strong by assembly my prediction of a top-three end within the drivers’ championship, so I’m staying on the Norris hype prepare and predicting he’ll go one higher than his 2024 runner up spot and win the entire rattling factor.
Norris may be his personal greatest rival at occasions, so exhausting is the 25-year-old on himself when issues go awry, however he appeared to discover a new confidence in himself within the closing levels of the final marketing campaign that shall be essential this yr.
The Briton stamped out the errors in qualifying to high the charts by way of pole positions (collectively with Max Verstappen) with eight in 2024 – and he lastly made it to the highest step, with victory in Miami earlier than including triumphs within the Netherlands, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
He was additionally essential in McLaren warding off Ferrari for his or her first constructors’ championship since 1998, and he now has some severe momentum. I agree along with his workforce radio message after he helped clinch that title with victory in Abu Dhabi when he stated subsequent yr, it’ll be him that seals the person crown too.
