McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain, heart, celebrates with group members after successful the Components One Mexico Grand Prix auto race on the Hermanos Rodriguez race observe in Mexico Metropolis, on October 26, 2025.
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Lando Norris averted early mayhem to earn a dominant Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix victory from pole place and take the Components One championship lead from McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri by a single level on Sunday (October 26, 2025).
Australian Piastri, who had began the race in seventh place and 14 factors away from the Briton, completed fifth after a late digital security automobile denied him a shot at fourth after an exciting chase.
Charles Leclerc was runner-up for Ferrari, 30.3 seconds adrift of Norris, whereas Purple Bull’s reigning champion Max Verstappen took his sixth successive podium in third place after a nail-biting final lap left him simply 0.7 behind the Monegasque.
Norris now has 357 factors to Piastri’s 356 with Verstappen on 321.
“What a race. I may simply preserve my eyes centered and ahead and deal with what I used to be doing,” mentioned Norris, who was booed by the house crowd for causes that remained unclear.
“A fairly easy race for me which is simply what I used to be after. An excellent begin, a great launch, a great first lap and I may go from there.”
Oliver Bearman was fourth for Haas in a career-best outcome for the Briton, who was 1.1 seconds away from Piastri at a chequered flag waved by former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield.
Hamilton handed 10-second penalty
Kimi Antonelli was sixth for Mercedes, with teammate George Russell seventh and Lewis Hamilton eighth for Ferrari after a 10-second penalty dropped him from third.
Esteban Ocon was ninth for Haas and Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto took the ultimate level.
Ferrari moved again into second place, some extent forward of Mercedes, in a constructors’ championship already received by McLaren.
Norris made a clear begin from pole when the lights went out however was caught in a four-way tussle down the long term to show one, with Verstappen reducing the nook and bumping over the grass run-off.
Leclerc then lower flip two, giving the place again to Norris who emerged from the chaos forward whereas Verstappen gained a spot in fourth to the extreme irritation of Russell.
“I bought squeezed like loopy,” mentioned Verstappen over the group radio as Russell, who began fourth, known as in useless for the four-times world champion to be pressured handy the place again.
Verstappen and third-placed Hamilton then made contact on lap six as they went aspect by aspect with the Purple Bull driver attempting to go previous at flip one however ending up reducing the subsequent nook.
Hamilton went off at flip 4, reducing again throughout the grass, and was handed a penalty for leaving the observe and gaining a bonus. The collision resulted in no additional motion.
Bearman in the meantime had climbed to fourth, from ninth at first, and was within the podium locations as soon as Hamilton took his penalty on lap 24, with the Ferrari driver coming again out in 14th and having to combat again by way of the sector.
Norris was by then 11.5 seconds away from Leclerc and having fun with a relaxed afternoon within the sunshine, steadily extending his lead.
Printed – October 27, 2025 06:38 am IST
