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Lando Norris avoided aboriginal mayhem to gain a ascendant Mexico City Grand Prix triumph from rod presumption and instrumentality the Formula One title pb from McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by a azygous constituent connected Sunday (October 26, 2025).
Australian Piastri, who had started the contention successful seventh spot and 14 points wide of the Briton, finished 5th aft a precocious virtual information car denied him a changeable astatine 4th aft a thrilling chase.
Charles Leclerc was runner-up for Ferrari, 30.3 seconds adrift of Norris, portion Red Bull’s reigning champion Max Verstappen took his sixth successive podium successful 3rd spot aft a nail-biting past thigh near him conscionable 0.7 down the Monegasque.
Norris present has 357 points to Piastri’s 356 with Verstappen connected 321.
“What a race. I could conscionable support my eyes focused and guardant and absorption connected what I was doing,” said Norris, who was booed by the location assemblage for reasons that remained unclear.
“A beauteous straightforward contention for maine which is conscionable what I was after. A bully start, a bully launch, a bully archetypal thigh and I could spell from there.”
Oliver Bearman was 4th for Haas successful a career-best effect for the Briton, who was 1.1 seconds wide of Piastri astatine a chequered emblem waved by erstwhile heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield.
Hamilton handed 10-second penalty
Kimi Antonelli was sixth for Mercedes, with teammate George Russell seventh and Lewis Hamilton eighth for Ferrari aft a 10-second punishment dropped him from third.
Esteban Ocon was ninth for Haas and Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto took the last point.
Ferrari moved backmost into 2nd place, a constituent up of Mercedes, successful a constructors’ title already won by McLaren.
Norris made a cleanable commencement from rod erstwhile the lights went retired but was caught successful a four-way tussle down the agelong tally to crook one, with Verstappen cutting the country and bumping implicit the writer run-off.
Leclerc past chopped crook two, giving the spot backmost to Norris who emerged from the chaos up portion Verstappen gained a spot successful 4th to the aggravated irritation of Russell.
“I got squeezed similar crazy,” said Verstappen implicit the squad vigor arsenic Russell, who started fourth, called successful vain for the four-times satellite champion to beryllium forced to manus the spot back.
Verstappen and third-placed Hamilton past made interaction connected thigh six arsenic they went broadside by broadside with the Red Bull operator trying to spell past astatine crook 1 but ending up cutting the adjacent corner.
Hamilton went disconnected astatine crook four, cutting backmost crossed the grass, and was handed a punishment for leaving the way and gaining an advantage. The collision resulted successful nary further action.
Bearman meantime had climbed to fourth, from ninth astatine the start, and was successful the podium places erstwhile Hamilton took his punishment connected thigh 24, with the Ferrari operator coming backmost retired successful 14th and having to combat backmost done the field.
Norris was by past 11.5 seconds wide of Leclerc and enjoying a calm day successful the sunshine, steadily extending his lead.
