The battle for the title mainly involves the McLaren drivers, with European F3 champion and F2 runner-up Norris facing back-to-back Formula Renault Eurocup, F3 and F2 champion Piastri.
However, Stella believes seven or eight drivers are talented enough to win the world championship – which, according to him, is testament to the quality of F1’s feeder series.
“The new generation of drivers, they’re just so good, and now you have seven, eight drivers which are at world championship level. Like I say, I’m not sure this has happened before,” the Italian added.
“Potentially this is because of how good the junior categories now are. These guys, they go karting and they have the data. They train at a certain level when they are adolescents. This has made the competitive field extremely, extremely tight, and therefore the difference is in this last one percent.”
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