Verstappen wins U.S. GP; cuts McLaren lead

AUSTIN, Texas -- Max Verstappen's singular pursuit of a 5th satellite rubric continued astatine the United States Grand Prix aft an assured triumph further chopped the spread to title person Oscar Piastri.

Piastri could lone negociate a fifth-place decorativeness aft struggling each play with his McLaren, meaning Verstappen outscored the title person by 15 points and reduced the spread successful the standings to 40.

Lando Norris besides made inroads connected Piastri's title pb with a second-place finish, meaning his spread to his McLaren teammate present stands astatine 14 points with 5 races remaining.

The effect means Verstappen has closed the spread to Piastri by 69 points implicit the past 4 rounds and is present 26 points down Norris successful 2nd place.

To underline Verstappen's momentum, it was the Red Bull driver's 3rd triumph successful 4 grands prix, and followed triumph successful Saturday's sprint race, which some McLaren cars failed to finish.

Verstappen's Sunday triumph ne'er looked successful uncertainty aft Norris, who started second, was passed by Charles Leclerc successful the archetypal country and past became bottled up down the Ferrari for the immense bulk of the race.

Norris initially overtook Leclerc connected Lap 21, but mislaid the presumption again erstwhile the Ferrari operator made an earlier pit halt for caller tyres and undercut the McLaren.

Norris rapidly latched onto the backmost of the Ferrari but struggled with his tyres overheating, meaning helium had to backmost disconnected and make a spread to Leclerc astir Lap 40.

After cooling his tyres down, Norris resumed his pursuit of Leclerc and passed the Ferrari connected Lap 51 with different cleanable determination astatine Turn 12.

After winning successful Austin past year, Leclerc had to settee for his sixth podium decorativeness of the play successful 3rd spot up of teammate Lewis Hamilton successful fourth.

Behind Piastri successful 5th place, George Russell took sixth for Mercedes up of the 2nd Red Bull of Yuki Tsunoda successful seventh.

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