Lando Norris made ground at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in his title battle with Oscar Piastri, but the debate at the end of the weekend was whether he had failed to capitalise on a major opportunity.

In a hugely uncharacteristic showing, Piastri crashed out of qualifying to leave himself ninth on the grid, botched his start and then shunted into the barriers once more on the opening lap to end the weekend pointless.

Norris failed to capitalise on Piastri's qualifying mistake as a scrappy final lap put him seventh on the grid, before errors from both driver and team during the race saw him finish in the same position he had started from.

The upshot was that Norris gained six points on Piastri, reducing the Australian's Drivers' Championship lead to 25 points with seven rounds of the seaso

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