Verstappen wins Las Vegas F1 GP while Norris extends championship lead

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Lando Norris closes successful connected archetypal Formula One Drivers’ title aft finishing 2nd to Max Verstappen successful Nevada.

Published On 23 Nov 2025

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix connected Saturday but McLaren’s Lando Norris has 1 manus connected the Formula One rubric aft finishing 2nd and stretching his pb implicit teammate Oscar Piastri to 30 points.

Piastri finished 4th aft Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, who was up of the Australian astatine the chequered flag, had 5 seconds added for jumping the start.

Quite a decent gap

“The car was moving beauteous well, overmuch much to my liking,” said Verstappen, ferried to the podium with Norris and Russell successful a LEGO pinkish Cadillac convertible driven by histrion Terry Crews arsenic fireworks lit up the entity implicit the Strip.

“It was astatine the extremity rather a decent gap.”

It was the 69th triumph of Verstappen’s vocation and his sixth of the season, arsenic good arsenic his 125th podium and eighth successful a enactment successful the 150th expansive prix of Red Bull’s concern with Honda.

Norris mislaid the pb to Verstappen astatine the start, dropping to 3rd erstwhile helium ran wide astatine the archetypal country and opened the doorway for the Dutch operator and Russell.

He retook 2nd from Russell connected the 34th of 50 laps but past had to negociate substance to the finish.

“I fto Max person a win,” helium joked. “I fto him go, fto him person a bully race. No, I conscionable braked excessively late,” helium added, with an expletive connected the unrecorded tv provender that could onshore the Briton successful occupation with the governing FIA.

“It was not my champion show retired determination but erstwhile the feline wins by 20 seconds it’s due to the fact that helium has conscionable done a amended occupation and they’re a spot quicker.”

Antonelli finished 5th with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc sixth and Williams’ Carlos Sainz seventh. Isack Hadjar was eighth for Racing Bulls and Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton completed the apical 10.

Piastri dropped from 5th to seventh connected the opening thigh aft interaction with Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson, who plunged to past with a severely damaged car.

Verstappen was 20 seconds wide of the tract by thigh 23 and pitted astatine the halfway point, rejoining successful the pb aft Russell and Norris had switched already to the hard tyre.

Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll was taken retired by Sauber’s Gabriel Borteleto arsenic the Brazilian rookie dived aggressively into the archetypal country and ran retired of road, with some retiring immediately.

Alpine’s Pierre Gasly was besides a spinner astatine the commencement and the virtual information car was triggered connected the 2nd thigh for marshals to retrieve debris betwixt turns 1 and four.

The VSC was deployed again connected thigh 16 for much debris connected way aft Williams’ Alex Albon and Hamilton collided, with the second racing from 19th and past connected the grid to 13th connected the opening lap.

Albon, whose squad mislaid vigor interaction with the car from the start, was handed a five-second punishment for causing the collision and besides reprimanded for a starting process infringement.