Sergio Perez believes his former team-mate Max Verstappen will finish the job and take the 2025 Formula 1 drivers' championship this year, adding that the Red Bull star "deserves" it after his form so far this season.

Lando Norris’ commanding victory in Mexico has dramatically shaken up the Formula 1 championship standings. The British driver claimed the maximum 25 points by

McLaren driver Lando Norris has won the Mexico Grand Prix to move ahead of teammate Oscar Piastri at the top of the world championship standings. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc held off a resurgent Max Verstappen to secure second, while the reigning champion has closed to within 36 points of the championship lead.

Max Verstappen has been steadily closing the gap on McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in the F1 title race.

Jacques Villeneuve believes Lando Norris has showed “strength that we normally see in Max [Verstappen]” at the Mexico City Grand Prix. Norris kept the lead from pole position and produced a masterful drive to dominate Sunday’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez as he took the championship lead for the first time in 16 races.

Verstappen started fifth and tried to go four-wide with Norris, Leclerc and Hamilton at the start of the race. He was pushed onto the curb and went wide at Turn 1 through the grass before rejoining the track ahead of where he started.

Max Verstappen is chasing a fifth Formula 1 championship after a dominant weekend at the United States Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen has argued that his crash with George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix earlier this season ‘might have been a good thing that happened’, despite costing the four-time world champion priceless points in his World Championship fight.