The British Lando Norris, of the McLaren team, won the Sao Paulo GP, remaining at the top of the F1 drivers’ championship three races before the end of the 2025 season.
MADRID, Nov. 9. (EUROPA PRESS).- The English pilot Lando Norris (McLaren) was imposed this Sunday in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to reaffirm his candidacy for the World Cup, ahead of Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) and a Max Verstappen (Red Bull) that continues to give a spectacle, while the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Williams) y Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) they finished thirteenth and fourteenth.
Interlagos It played as expected, not crazy because there was no rain or many accidents, but there were several safety cars and a lot of strategy with the stops. Like two weeks ago Mexico, Norris He was oblivious to all that, to his own thing, going out first and having a weekend in Brazil that separates him by 24 points from his teammate Oscar Piastri, who was fifth.
Norris, who took the lead in the Mexican event by just one point, completed his full performance in Sao Paulo, winning the Sprint also from pole, to increase his bid to be world champion for the first time. Third, 49 points behind the Englishman, Verstappen showed once again that he does not intend to give up, and signed an epic comeback starting from the “pit lane” to get on the podium.
With three races and a Sprint left, the World Championship is beginning to get back on track with Norris escaping the battle from behind. He nailed the start and, after the safety car by local Gabriel Bortoleto, saved the restart and escaped Piastri’s entry into the first corner, which claimed the race of Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and cost him a ten-second penalty.
LANDO NORRIS WINS THE 2025 SÃO PAULO GRAND PRIX!! #F1 #BrazilGP pic.twitter.com/u1EGFOIHuB
— Formula 1 (@F1) November 9, 2025
In any case, the Australian soon found that he did not have the rhythm of the other papaya. The Englishman also had no problem passing Verstappen, paired after the first stop, and the race passed with the uncertainty of how long the tires would last. When it became clear that there would be no more stops, the last 15 laps, was when hostilities arose.
The Red Bull driver made an epic overtake on George Russell to get on the podium, but Antonelli’s Mercedes resisted him. The Italian achieved the best position of his season “rookie” and Russell finished fourth without letting Piastri pass. Meanwhile, Oliver Bearman (Haas), the RBs of Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar, Nico Hülkenberg (Sauber) and Pierre Gasly (Alpine) scored.
The total debacle, in search of the Constructors’ second place, was for Ferrari, since Lewis Hamilton also had to abandon. Saturday’s bizarre grid had left a lot of unexpected cars in the points zone, but neither Carlos Sainz nor Fernando Alonso managed to sneak into the ‘Top 10’.
Between bad stops and lack of rhythm, the Madrid native closed a bad weekend in Brazil, with his Williams in 13th position. Meanwhile, Alonso, from better to worse as usually happens on weekends with Sprint, sixth in the Brazilian, could only be 14th, getting closer to finishing the season and being able to think about the new car.
Sharing a special Sao Paulo podium together! 🇧🇷🍾#F1 #BrazilGP pic.twitter.com/2V6BnK7GbJ
— Formula 1 (@F1) November 9, 2025