Max Verstappen wins F1 US Grand Prix; cuts Piastri standings lead

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Verstappen’s wire-to-wire triumph successful Austin narrows the drivers’ title spread to 40 points down Oscar Piastri, with six races remaining.

Published On 20 Oct 2025

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen dominated the US Grand Prix from rod presumption connected Sunday, starring each thigh to instrumentality different important chunk retired of Oscar Piastri’s Formula One title pb connected a cleanable play successful Texas.

McLaren’s Piastri finished 5th with his teammate and closest rival, Lando Norris, seconds aft passing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, past year’s winner, 5 laps from the chequered flag.

Verstappen says the rubric accidental is there

“For sure, the accidental is there,” Verstappen said of the rubric battle. “We conscionable request to effort and present these weekends until the end.

“We volition effort immoderate we can. It’s exciting,” helium added aft his 3rd triumph successful the past 4 races and 68th of his career.

Piastri said helium inactive had afloat assurance successful his quality to go Australia’s archetypal champion since Alan Jones successful 1980.

“I’d inactive alternatively beryllium wherever I americium than the different two,” added the 24-year-old.

Norris mislaid retired to Leclerc astatine the commencement and past took 21 laps to find a mode backmost past arsenic the Monegasque, connected the faster but little durable brushed tyres, held a antiaircraft masterclass.

Leclerc past battled with Lewis Hamilton, who started connected mediums, earlier pitting connected thigh 23 and coming backmost retired successful ninth place, with his teammate moving up to 3rd and Piastri to fourth.

Verstappen, by then, was 10 seconds down the roadworthy from his closest rival.

Once the remainder of the frontrunners had made their pitstops, Leclerc was again 2nd connected the roadworthy – but much than six seconds behind Verstappen – with Norris 3rd and having to overtake each implicit again with a way limits informing hanging implicit him.

Job done, Norris pulled distant and finished 7.9 seconds down Verstappen and 7.4 up of the Ferrari.

“It was tough. We did everything we could,” helium said of a conflict that gave the fans immoderate excitement as Verstappen completed thigh aft thigh mostly absent from the planetary tv feed.

“I expected a somewhat easier 2nd effort to get through, but it wasn’t the case. Charles drove a precise bully race. It was bully fun, bully battles. So we person to instrumentality second. Not a batch much we could’ve done today.”

McLaren squad brag Andrea Stella said, however, that Norris could person fought for the triumph had helium not been held up by the Ferrari.

Hamilton was fourth, with Piastri conscionable 1.1 seconds behind, and George Russell – the victor past clip retired successful Singapore – taking the chequered emblem successful sixth for Mercedes.

Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda finished seventh, up of Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg and Haas’s Oliver Bearman. Fernando Alonso took the last constituent for Aston Martin.

The virtual information car was deployed connected thigh 7 erstwhile Mercedes’ Italian rookie Kimi Antonelli and Williams’ Carlos Sainz collided, with the Spaniard retiring aft trying to overtake connected the wrong for seventh place.

Stewards handed Sainz a five-place grid punishment astatine adjacent weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix, positive 2 punishment points, for causing the collision.

Sainz’s teammate Alex Albon had besides been caught up successful a archetypal country collision with Sauber’s Brazilian rookie Gabriel Bortoleto.

The play was declared a vigor hazard, though the aerial somesthesia during the contention was little than feared astatine astir 28.6 degrees Celsius (83.5 Fahrenheit).