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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen continued his late-season charge with a victory Sunday at the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, while McLaren’s Lando Norris took a huge chunk out of teammate Oscar Piastri’s championship lead by finishing second.
Piastri was a distant fifth, which allowed Norris to pull within 14 points with five grand prix and two sprint races to go.
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Verstappen, who got his third victory in four races, is also closing fast and now trails Piastri by 40 points in third.
Piastri and Norris are chasing their first career drivers championship. Verstappen is hunting his fifth in a row, and his dominant form of late has given him a real chance to get it. He also won Satu