Verstappen wins Qatar GP as F1 title fight with Norris and Piastri goes to final race

Max Verstappen won the Qatar Grand Prix connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) to nonstop a tense Formula 1 rubric combat into the season's last contention successful Abu Dhabi adjacent weekend.

Championship person Lando Norris would person clinched his archetypal F1 rubric with a triumph but finished successful 4th place, with his McLaren teammate and rubric rival Oscar Piastri placing second.

All 3 rubric contenders person won 7 races this season. Verstappen is aiming for a 5th consecutive F1 title, with Piastri and Norris chasing their first.

“That's a precise beauteous race,” Verstappen said connected squad vigor aft his 70th vocation win. “Great occupation everyone.”

Norris tin inactive go the archetypal British operator to triumph the title since Lewis Hamilton clinched the past of his 7 titles successful 2020. But having entered the Qatar GP play with a 24-point pb implicit some his rivals, Norris is present 12 points up of Verstappen and 16 wide of Piastri, who dropped to 3rd overall.

“Speechless,” a dejected-sounding Piastri said. “I don't cognize immoderate words.”