Norris leads F1 title after Mexico win as Piastri slips behind

Lando Norris reclaimed the lead in the 2025 Formula 1 drivers championship Sunday with a dominant lights to flag victory at the Mexico City Grand Prix, while teammate Oscar Piastri surrendered the points advantage he had held for most of the season. Norris started from pole at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, controlled the 71‑lap race and crossed the line more than 30 seconds clear, leaving Piastri to recover from a difficult weekend to fifth and slip one point behind with four races and two sprint events remaining.

Norris converted a commanding qualifying performance into a near‑uncontested win, setting the pace across practice, qualifying and the race. He told reporters he has made small changes in how he approaches qualifying runs and race starts, including removing the delta time display from his dash, a move he said helps him focus on each corner rather than lap comparisons. Team principal Andrea Stella said the high‑altitude, low‑grip characteristics of the Mexico circuit played to Norris’s strengths and that McLaren believes it now has a clearer understanding of how to extract consistent performance from its car.

Piastri struggled for pace across the weekend after...