18 h. ago F1 standings: Max Verstappen hunting down Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in title charge

McLaren rivals wobbling as Red Bull’s reigning four-time world champion makes dramatic late push

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5 d. ago ‘For sure, the chance is there’: Max Verstappen hopeful he can retain F1 title

World champion powers to US Grand Prix win in AustinVerstappen now 40 points behind leader Oscar PiastriMax Verstappen is convinced that he is now very much in the fight for the world championship after his victory at the US Grand Prix. Following a dominant win in Austin the Red Bull driver was adamant he could still yet take his fifth title and was enthused at the chance to do so.Verstappen won with a flawless drive from pole to flag at the Circuit of the Americas, and in so doing narrowed the gap to the championship leader Oscar Piastri to 40 points. In what is now a three-way title battle Lando Norris, who took second place, is just 14 points off Piastri. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Max Verstappen cruises to United States Grand Prix victory to maintain pressure in battle for F1 championship

Verstappen has reduced the deficit to Piastri at the top of the F1 leaderboard

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5 d. ago Verstappen cruises to victory in F1 US Grand Prix to pile pressure on McLarens

Lando Norris overtakes Charles Leclerc to finish secondPiastri manages fifth with rivals closing in on title leadMax Verstappen won the US Grand Prix with a dominant run for Red Bull at the Circuit of the Americas, and with victory he has staked his claim as a genuine contender in an increasingly tight Formula One world championship battle – his title rival Lando Norris beaten into second and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc into third.With Norris’s McLaren teammate, and the championship leader, Oscar Piastri managing only fifth place from sixth on the grid, the F1 meeting in Austin has set up an enormously tense run-in as the season enters its final five meetings, with Norris closing to within just 14 points of his teammate. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Risk of wheel bashing and strategy sets up complicated US Grand Prix

McLaren’s total dominance has gone and Norris and Piastri’s title race head-to-head is no longer such a binary affairAt the mid-point of this season it might have been considered that the title fight between McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri would simply be decided by which driver had the edge to take the flag at each remaining meeting. Going into this weekend’s US Grand Prix, however, the contest has become far more complicated and far more interesting.While only 22 points separate the pair neither has now won for three races, the team’s longest drought of the season. Moreover, they have been beaten on merit across a variety of tracks. At the fast, low downforce challenge of Monza and Baku, where Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took the flag, and the slow, high downforce of Singapore, where Mercedes’ George Russell more than had their measure. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Norris as Senna and Piastri as Prost? No, but McLaren must hope title is settled on track | Giles Richards

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri argued over events in Singapore and their team have to be careful it doesn’t continue in the title run-inMcLaren and Formula One could do with anything decisive in the championship battle between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri being decided on the track and without reference to the pit wall as the title run-in begins at the Circuit of the Americas on Friday.With the Singapore Grand Prix’s doubtless extensive and tense debriefs dealt with, McLaren will be hoping for a reset. Norris was almost certainly more than aware of the historical context of his riposte to his aggrieved teammate at the last grand prix weekend. In a fiercely contested title fight with the Australian, that Norris invoked one of Ayrton Senna’s most famous sentiments was lost on no one but the incident that provoked his comment was of an entirely different nature to those that defined the Brazilian’s great rivalries. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How Lando Norris’s audacious move ignited the friendliest F1 title race ever

Comment: Norris’s audacious overtake on a fuming Oscar Piastri in Singapore has lit the touchpaper on the McLaren intra-team title battle – it’s exactly what the British driver needed

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2 w. ago How Lando Norris’s audacious move ignited the nicest F1 title race ever

Comment: Norris’s audacious overtake on a fuming Oscar Piastri in Singapore has lit the touchpaper on the McLaren intra-team title battle – it’s exactly what the British driver needed

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2 w. ago F1 standings: Title latest after Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris clash at Singapore Grand Prix

McLaren win 10th constructors’ title but focus is on flashpoint between their drivers heading to Austin

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2 w. ago Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris clash at Singapore Grand Prix as McLaren win constructors' title

Piastri bemoans risky Norris move and ‘unfair’ treatment by team during race won comfortably by Mercedes’ George Russell

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2 w. ago George Russell wins F1 Singapore GP as Norris nibbles at angry Piastri’s lead

Mercedes driver triumphs as McLaren take team titleVerstappen second, Norris third, Piastri fourthGeorge Russell won the Singapore Grand Prix with a dominant drive from pole to flag for Mercedes, but behind him the world championship title fight between McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri reached a flashpoint that has long been threatened. Piastri was furious with his teammate and his team after Norris barged past him at the start and the pair finished third and fourth behind the Red Bull of Max Verstappen.Russell drove a confident, consummate race for Mercedes, a deserved win, his first in Singapore. Leading from lights out he did not put a foot wrong at the Marina Bay circuit as he delivered his second victory of the year and once more made a strong case for his contract negotiations with the team. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Impressive Russell holds off Verstappen to grab F1 Singapore GP pole

Rejuvenated Mercedes driver takes top spot by 0.182secTitle leader Oscar Piastri in third, Lando Norris fifthGeorge Russell claimed pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix, putting in a magnificent lap between the walls of the Marina Bay street circuit for Mercedes under the floodlights. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took second but was not close to Russell’s time.In the championship fight Oscar Piastri had the advantage with third while his title rival Lando Norris – 25 points behind his McLaren teammate – managed only fifth. Kimi Antonelli was impressive to take fourth for Mercedes, while Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were in sixth and seventh for Ferrari. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Who can handle title heat? Piastri and Norris know winner will be the one who stays cool

With just seven races left, drivers must cut out errors and any extra pressure, says seven-time winner Lewis HamiltonWere it not already a sweltering sauna in Singapore, the increasing intensity of this season’s Formula One world championship would be enough to make all but the most stoic competitor wilt. Withstanding the pressure may yet prove the difference between McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as the title battle ratchets up with every race.Including this weekend’s meeting in Singapore at the Marina Bay circuit, seven grands prix remain and the championship is finely poised. Piastri leads his teammate by 25 points. Both are free to race each other and with Max Verstappen still a distant 69 in arrears, it is a head-to-head battle, with little to choose between them. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Why F1 insiders, drivers and even his title rivals believe Max Verstappen CAN still win the world championship this year

Max Verstappen is the best driver on the planet. And he should be crowned world champion again this year if justice counted.

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3 w. ago Norris considers Verstappen ‘genuine challenger’ for F1 title after resurgence

Four-time champion has won past two races to close gapNorris plays down McLaren prioritising teammate PiastriLando Norris has brushed off suggestions that McLaren would prioritise his teammate Oscar Piastri in the world championship fight after a resurgent Max Verstappen has emerged as a rival contender.Norris said the Dutchman was now in a position to defend his title, as the drivers prepare for what is likely to be the most gruelling meeting of the year in Singapore. The FIA has already declared a “heat hazard” race as temperatures and humidity have soared. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lando Norris identifies 'genuine' Max Verstappen threat and scoffs at Oscar Piastri claim

Max Verstappen is 69 points behind F1 standings leader Oscar Piastri with back-to-back wins piling pressure on the McLaren driver and his team-mate Lando Norris in the title race

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3 w. ago Lando Norris gives honest take on Max Verstappen’s F1 title chances

The four-time world champion has won back-to-back races and is now only 69 points off Oscar Piastri

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