Lando Norris has extended his world title lead over Oscar Piastri to nine points after he won the Sao Paulo GP Sprint while his McLaren team-mate crashed out.

In a fresh major setback to the Australian driver's fading title hopes two weeks after losing the leadership of the standings to Norris, Piastri spun into the barriers in damp conditions at Turn Three on lap six when running in third place.

Piastri touched his left-front wheel on the inside kerb, with water splashing up and sending the McLaren around into the tyre barriers.

He was followed in crashing at the same corner in quick succession by Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg and, in the heaviest contact of all, Alpine's Franco Colapinto.

While Hulkenberg was able to drag his damage car back to the pit lane, Piastri and Colapinto were out

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