Sky Sports F1 commentator Anthony Davidson expects the rivalry between 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Oscar Piastri to intensify, with McLaren expected to be the team to beat heading into the 💎new🔯 season.

McLaren impressed during the three days of F1 pre-sea✅son testing at the Bahrain International Circuit at the end of February.

Lando Norris’ race simulation ♓on 🌞day two of the test caught the attention of the paddock.

Norris was around 0.6s quicker than 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kimi Antonelli on the second day of testing during the race runs, suggesting McLaren are the heavy favourit♒es go💜ing into Melbourne.

McLaren are also the reigning F1 constructors’ champions, having pipped Ferrari to the t🍬itle.

With tha💛t 🅺championship in the bag, both drivers fancy their chances of becoming

McLaren’s first drivers’ champion since 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton in 2008.

“It often brings a few downsides, like we saw lastജ year, a few sticky moments between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. But the team have just about got on top of that now. You could see the surprise in quite a young team last year. It’s a problem but a nice problem to have.

“Naturally g𒉰reat drivers arrive at a great team and I think this year you could be seeing a few more moments arise where, if they are in the most competitive car and there’s a bit of a gap between them and others, we know that they run each oꦺther hard and it suddenly becomes much more personal in that intra-team battle between the drivers. That’s definitely one to watch.”

Lando Norris will 'come of age' in 2025

Norris was Verstappen’s closest challenger in 20🍷24, finishing runner-up in the f꧋inal standings.

However, the McLaren driver was left to rue a number of missed opportuniti꧋es and mistakes.

Davidson feels that Norris is now “coming into the peak” of his F1 career and is his tip to ta🃏ke the title.

“When push comes to shove Piastri has this in-built, steely confidence,” he added. “Lando it seems has to convince himself a bit more but is an excep🦋tional driver and is coming into the peak of where he will get to as a r🐟acing driver and he's my tip to become world champion this year.

“This will be the year 💫Lando comes of age and is the driver to beat.”