Lando Norris wins in Mexico City Grand Prix as Oscar Piastri loses championship lead
26th October 2025McLaren’s Lando Norris has claimed the victory, in a dominant drive, at the Mexico City Grand Prix and has dethroned teammate Oscar Piastri in the drivers championship.
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Norris has converted his pole position into a dominant drive after the British driver completed a masterful drive to take his sixth win of the season, with a lights-to-flag performance.
As such, the championship title has taken another turn with only four races remaining on the 2025 campaign. Norris has regained the driver’s championship lead with 357 points to his name, one point more than his teammate – and former championship leader – Piastri (356pts).
Piastri has been on a run of lacking form after the sport moved away from Europe, after the summer break, and his troubles continued in Mexico. He started seventh on the grid and could only improve to fifth by the chequered flag.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished the race in the same position he qualified, second. The Monegasque driver survived the first lap carnage, alongside Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Both drivers were forced to take to the grass at the first corner, with the latter just avoiding the barriers.
As the pit stop sequences finished at the end of the race, Verstappen found himself on a charge to take second from Leclerc. However, a late virtual safety car, on lap 70, for Carlos Sainz’s stranded Williams, halted any further progress for the Dutchman’s ambitions.
In the end, Leclerc finished runner-up ahead of Verstappen. With Piastri’s fifth place finish, it means Verstappen continues to cut down the Australian’s advantage and now trails the former championship leader by 31 points.
Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton fell to eighth overall, after starting third, after the seven-time world champion served a 10-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage on his duel against Verstappen, in the early stages of the race.
Williams’ Carlos Sainz was also given penalties during the race after the Spaniard sped through the pit lane with a jumpy car twice. He was given a five-second time penalty for the first breach, and a drive-through in the second before he retired from the race.
Next up is the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, in two weeks, for the final four races of the season and it will get underway on November 7-9, 2025.
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