With 40 points splitting Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris and Max Verstappen in the F1 title race with five rounds remaining, who will take the 2025 drivers' championship?

F1s Drivers Championship fight is now definitively a three-horse race after Max Verstappen followed up Austin Sprint win with victory in the main Grand Prix; Verstappen now 40 points back on Oscar Piastri;

Oscar Piastri has said he has no issues with McLaren calling team orders late in the Italian Grand Prix, allowing his teammate and championship rival to overtake him for second place.

Oscar Piastri has been told he must be more selfish and potentially even defy team orders if he wants to win his maiden F1 drivers’ championship.

AUSTIN – Max Verstappen continued his late-season charge up the 2025 Formula One drivers’ championship standings with a commanding win at the United States Grand Prix, leading every lap from pole and crossing the line ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc.

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After his home race, the Dutch Grand Prix, Verstappen slipped to 104 points behind the title lead. In the four races since, he has brought it down to 40. At this rate, he will be the world champion, with both the McLaren drivers struggling to craft together any momentum.