Max Verstappen claimed a dominant United States (US) Grand Prix victory ahead of Lando Norris as the pair made significant inroads into Oscar Piastri’s Drivers’ Championship lead. Verstappen followed up Saturday’s Sprint win with a lights-to-flag triumph for Red Bull at the Circuit of The Americas, while Norris made a late pass on Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to salvage second place as his McLaren team-mate Piastri toiled to fifth. A third win in four races for Verstappen brings the Dutchman within 40 points of Piastri with five rounds of the 2025 season remaining, while Norris closes to within 14 points of the title lead. Verstappen says he is delighted.
” We found a way with the car, it’s simple as that and found upgrades on the car. We understood your car better and where we wanted to perform better. Every weekend we try to achieve it, and other weekends it’s better than others, but it’s been straight forward generally. We need to extract that every weekend. I think we need to be perfect till the end,” he said.
