2025 F1 Grand Prix of Las Vegas — Results & aftermath

Verstappen comes up aces in Vegas with race win, while McLaren crap out with double DQ due to technical violations; Game on in championship hunt, as Verstappen gets level with Piastri, trails Norris by only 24 with two races to go

By the time the last of the neon soaked 50-laps of Saturday night’s Las Vegas Grand Prix were completed, McLaren’s Lando Norris thought he had done enough to maintain his dominating lead in the Drivers’ Championship with only two more races left to run on the 2025 calendar. Despite a rather overenthusiastic start from the pole that saw him steam off the circuit at Turn 1, allowing Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to take the lead and then hold it until the end of the contest, Norris nursed tires and a potential low fuel issue well enough to earn second place when the checkers flew. Even with Verstappen’s 25-point victory, that was only a net gain of seven on Norris’s points bulge, which stood at 49 at that moment in time. Meanwhile, McLaren teammate and chief rival Oscar Piastri continued to sputter down the stretch and could only muster a fourth place result after a difficult weekend of limited running and very changeable track conditions. But it was after the race that it all began to unravel in Papayaland, when both Norris and Piastri were disqualified form the results due to the skid wear on both their cars coming in under the minimum thickness as per the technical regulations. With that astonishing transgression in Sin City, both McLaren men scored precisely zero on the evening, with Verstappen surging in his improbable comeback bid for a fifth consecutive title by now tying Piastri for second place with 366 points and both pursuers trailing Norris by a mere 24 points. With Verstappen’s deficit under just a race win heading into the penultimate race in Qatar next weekend, things just got a whole lot more nerve jangling for Norris and the McLaren braintrust, as the young Englishman desperately tries to keep his increasingly fraught grip on what would be his first F1 title.

Top 12 finishers of the Las Vegas GP (includes DQ’s Norris & Piastri, who scored zero):

CLA DRIVER # LAPS TIME INTERVAL KM/H PITS POINTS
1 M. VerstappenRed Bull Racing 1 50

1:21’08.429

 229.201 1 25
dq L. NorrisMcLaren 4 50

+20.741

1:21’29.170

 20.741 228.228 1
2 G. RussellMercedes 63 50

+23.546

1:21’31.975

 2.805 228.097 1 18
dq O. PiastriMcLaren 81 50

+27.650

1:21’36.079

 4.104 227.906 1
3 A. AntonelliMercedes 12 50

+30.488

1:21’38.917

 2.838 227.774 1 15
4 C. LeclercFerrari 16 50

+30.678

1:21’39.107

 0.190 227.765 1 12
5 C. SainzWilliams 55 50

+34.924

1:21’43.353

 4.246 227.568 1 10
6 I. HadjarRacing Bulls 6 50

+45.257

1:21’53.686

 10.333 227.089 1 8
7 N. HulkenbergSauber 27 50

+51.134

1:21’59.563

 5.877 226.818 1 6
8 L. HamiltonFerrari 44 50

+59.369

1:22’07.798

 8.235 226.439 1 4
9 E. OconHaas F1 Team 31 50

+1’00.635

1:22’09.064

 1.266 226.381 1 2
10 O. BearmanHaas F1 Team 87 50

+1’10.549

1:22’18.978

 9.914 225.927 1 1
11 F. AlonsoAston Martin Racing 14 50

+1’25.308

1:22’33.737

 14.759 225.253 1
12 Y. TsunodaRed Bull Racing 22 50

+1’26.974

1:22’35.403

 1.666 225.178 2

Complete race results available via Formula1.com.

The next race, the penultimate of the season, is in but a week’s time — the Qatar Grand Prix at the Lusail International Circuit. Norris, Piastri and team McLaren as a whole will have a short turnaround to try to shake off this weekends’ stunning developments in las Vegas, while Verstappen will be keen to keep applying the pressure and continue his quest to pull off one of the most improbably comebacks in F1 history. Hope to see you then to find out how it all shakes out!