{"id":13449,"date":"2025-10-20T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/10487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:24","slug":"10487","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/10487\/","title":{"rendered":"Max\u00a0Verstappen\u00a0claims dominant US Grand Prix victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>Max\u00a0Verstappen\u00a0claimed a dominant United States (US) Grand Prix victory\u00a0ahead of\u00a0Lando\u00a0Norris as the pair made significant inroads into Oscar\u00a0Piastri&#8217;s\u00a0Drivers&#8217; Championship lead.\u00a0Verstappen\u00a0followed up Saturday&#8217;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&#8217;s Charles\u00a0Leclerc\u00a0to salvage second place as his\u00a0McLaren\u00a0team-mate\u00a0Piastri\u00a0toiled to fifth. A third win in four races for\u00a0Verstappen\u00a0brings the Dutchman within 40 points of\u00a0Piastri\u00a0with five rounds of the 2025 season remaining, while Norris closes to within 14 points of the title lead. Verstappen says he is delighted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We found a way with the car, it&#8217;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&#8217;s better than others, but it&#8217;s been straight forward generally. We need to extract that every weekend. I think we need to be perfect till the end,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13450,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13449","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18567,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13449\/revisions\/18567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}