It was actually a day to keep in mind for Lando Norris, who took a lights-to-flag success at the Mexico City Grand Prix on Sunday (October 26, 2025). With this success, the McLaren chauffeur ended up being the brand-new Drivers’ Championship leader by simply one point after sealing the win ahead of Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen in an action-packed race. Norris now has 357 indicate Piastri’s 356 with Verstappen on 321.
The Briton prevented early trouble to make a dominant Mexico City Grand Prix triumph from lead and take the Formula One champion lead from McLaren colleague Oscar Piastri by a single point on Sunday.
=Norris, the McLaren motorist, end up being the brand-new Drivers’ Championship leader by simply one point after sealing the win ahead of Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen in an action-packed race.
Australian Piastri, who had actually started the race in seventh location and 14 points clear of the Briton Norris, completed fifth after a late virtual security vehicle rejected him a chance at 4th after an awesome chase.
For Ferrari, Charles Leclerc was runner-up for Ferrari, 30.3 seconds adrift of Norris, while Red Bull’s ruling champ Max Verstappen took his 6th succeeding podium in 3rd location after a nail-biting last lap left him simply 0.7 behind the Monegasque.
Oliver Bearman was 4th for Haas in a career-best outcome for the Briton, who was 1.1 seconds clear of Piastri at a chequered flag waved by previous heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield.
Hamilton was provided a 10-second charge after beginning 3rd. Kimi Antonelli was 6th for Mercedes, with colleague George Russell seventh and Lewis Hamilton 8th for Ferrari after a 10-second charge dropped him from 3rd.
Esteban Ocon was ninth for Haas and Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto took the last point. Ferrari returned into 2nd location, a point ahead of Mercedes, in a fitters’ champion currently won by McLaren.
Norris made a tidy start from pole when the lights headed out however was captured in a four-way tussle down the long term to turn one, with Verstappen cutting the corner and bumping over the yard run-off.
Verstappen and third-placed Hamilton then made contact on lap 6 as they went side by side with the Red Bull chauffeur attempting to pass by at turn one however winding up cutting the next corner. Hamilton went off at turn 4, cutting down throughout the turf, and was handed a charge for leaving the track and acquiring a benefit. The crash led to no more action.
Bearman on the other hand had actually reached 4th, from ninth at the start, and remained in the podium positions when Hamilton took his charge on lap 24, with the Ferrari motorist returning out in 14th and needing to resist through the field.
Norris was already 11.5 seconds clear of Leclerc and delighting in a calm afternoon in the sunlight, progressively extending his lead.