Norris wins Brazil GP to extend F1 championship lead over Piastri

McLaren’s Lando Norris won the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to surge 24 points wide successful the Formula One title connected Sunday, portion teammate and rubric rival Oscar Piastri finished 5th aft being penalised for causing a collision.

Mercedes’s teenage rookie Kimi Antonelli hung connected for a career-best 2nd place, with Max Verstappen an astonishing 3rd for Red Bull aft starting from the pit lane.

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Verstappen’s show was each the much awesome aft the four-time satellite champion, who won from 17th astatine Interlagos past year, suffered an aboriginal dilatory puncture and had to combat backmost from 18th.

“Crazy race,” said Norris of his 2nd successive triumph and seventh of the play aft snatching the title pb from Piastri in Mexico past month.

“To beryllium honest, I don’t deliberation we were the quickest today, but I’m gladsome to instrumentality location the win.

“It’s a large win. But seeing however speedy Max was, it’s disappointing we were not quicker.”

Norris leads McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri during the contention [Amanda Perobelli/Reuters]

Pistria penalised for causing collision

Piastri, who started 4th with Norris connected pole, served a 10-second punishment for an aboriginal clash with Antonelli, which enactment Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc retired of the contention aft they went three-abreast.

It was different monolithic stroke for the Australian, who crashed retired of the Saturday sprint that Norris won connected a cleanable play for the Briton, who has moved up a cogwheel and is present the wide rubric favourite.

George Russell was 4th for Mercedes, who consolidated 2nd spot wide successful a constructors’ title already won by McLaren.

With 3 races and a Saturday sprint remaining, Norris has 390 points to Piastri’s 366, with Verstappen falling further down connected 341 and his hopes looking slim contempt his superlative thrust successful Sao Paulo.

Oliver Bearman was sixth for Haas, different good show from the British rookie aft his 4th successful Mexico, with Liam Lawson seventh for Racing Bulls up of teammate Isack Hadjar.

Nico Hulkenberg finished ninth for Sauber, and Pierre Gasly completed the points positions for Renault-owned Alpine, a twelvemonth connected from the team’s treble podium successful Brazil.

Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto completed a miserable play for Brazil’s lone driver, spinning into the partition connected the opening thigh aft being squeezed by Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll arsenic Norris led cleanly away.

The clang brought retired the information car, with Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton pitting for a caller beforehand helping aft helium collided with Williams’s Carlos Sainz and Alpine’s Franco Colapinto.

The seven-time satellite champion and honorary Brazilian continued with a damaged level but was fixed a five-second punishment for causing a collision, and past retired.

The treble operator status was Ferrari’s 3rd of the play and dropped them down to 4th successful the constructors’ championship, down Red Bull successful third.

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, right, finished the Brazil Grand Prix successful 3rd spot aft opening the contention successful the pit lane [Jean Carniel/Pool via Reuters]

Not each Piastri’s fault

The information car came successful astatine the extremity of thigh five, and Piastri locked up and made interaction with Antonelli, who was pushed into Leclerc astatine the restart.

The Ferrari mislaid a tyre and stopped, triggering a virtual information car.

“He [Antonelli] near maine nary space,” the Australian said implicit the squad radio, but stewards disagreed successful what immoderate pundits and adjacent rivals felt was a harsh decision.

“I wouldn’t spell arsenic acold arsenic saying that it’s each Oscar’s fault. I don’t deliberation it is,” said Leclerc.

Verstappen, who had a caller motor and plentifulness of different changed parts aft qualifying 16th, suffered a dilatory front-right puncture connected thigh 8 aft climbing to 13th.

He was up to 4th aft 24 of the 71 laps, mounting fastest laps, and connected thigh 51, helium took the pb erstwhile Norris made his 2nd and last stop.

Verstappen pitted again connected thigh 54, dropping to 4th and lighting the interaction insubstantial connected a thrilling pursuit for the podium.

He passed Russell astir the extracurricular astatine crook 1 connected thigh 63, and Antonelli was successful his sights 4 laps later, but the tyres past dropped disconnected and the Italian made nary mistakes.

“To beryllium connected the podium, I did not expect that astatine all,” said Verstappen. “To decorativeness lone 10 seconds from the pb is incredible.”

His teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, was the last operator classified aft 2 10-second penalties, the 2nd for not serving the archetypal correctly.

The adjacent contention is Las Vegas connected November 22, the archetypal of a last triple header ending successful Abu Dhabi connected December 7.

A marshal waves the checkered emblem arsenic Norris crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the Brazil Grand Prix [Jean Carniel/ Pool via AFP]