DNF

Would you agree, realistically, with six races left, Lando Norris needs Max Verstappen to have a DNF to stand any chance of winning the championship?

In distance running DNF means “did not finish”; 11 of the 91 starters, including Fiona O’Keefe, winner of the U.S. trials in February, took that option Sunday.

“It is very difficult. If Perez DNF’s, then we have a shot,” Wolff said.

The two-time Cup champion has been involved in either a spin or crash in 13 races this season and has six DNF’s.

It was Leclerc’s third DNF of the season, as many as all of last season, while Sainz still does not have a podium heading into the Italian GP at Monza next weekend.