Lando Norris dominated the Mexican Grand Prix and reclaimed the lead of the drivers’ championship from his team mate.

The McLaren driver led every lap after seeing off an attack from the Ferrari drivers and Max Verstappen at the start.

A series of incidents at the start of the race received the attention of the stewards, though only one driver received a penalty.

Chaos broke out behind Norris as Charles Leclerc and Verstappen left the track at the first corner. The Red Bull driver came perilously close to sliding into the barrier at turn three before rejoining.

Both drivers came back onto the track in front of Hamilton. Leclerc didn’t let his team mate through but Verstappen did give way to him, while George Russell behind argued he was also entitled to receive a place from the Red Bull driver. The stewards took no action.

Verstappen launched a bold attack on Hamilton at turn one soon afterwards, the pair making contact. Hamilton came back at the Red Bull driver on the outside of turn four, but locked up and went wide.

Hamilton failed to follow the correct route back onto the circuit, and came back on ahead of Verstappen, which incurred the wrath of the stewards. They handed him a 10-second time penalty which he served at his first pit stop, dropping him towards the lower end of the points-scoring places.

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That exchange gave Oliver Bearman a chance to attack Verstappen and he pulled it off beautifully, diving past the Red Bull on the inside at turn seven. Verstappen, who unlike most of his rivals around him started the race on the medium compound tyres, was unable to retaliate.

Behind Verstappen, the Mercedes drivers and Oscar Piastri pitted early to discard their soft tyres and get onto the medium compound. However that trio eventually decided they couldn’t reach the end with a single pit stop and came in for second sets of softs.

Bearman did likewise, which promoted Verstappen to third place. Over the final stint he whittled away at the gap to second-placed Leclerc and attacked the Ferrari as the penultimate lap began.

However Carlos Sainz Jnr’s Williams came to a stop in the stadium section and a Virtual Safety Car period was deployed. By the time the race restarted, Verstappen’s best chance to pass Leclerc on the main straight had gone.

Norris therefore reeled off a dominant win by over half a minute, while Leclerc hung on to beat Verstappen to second. The VSC also helped Bearman protect his fourth place from Piastri.

The McLaren driver jumped Andrea Kimi Antonelli when the pair made their second pit stops. He then pulled off a daring lunge on Russell for fifth at turn one.

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That prompted Mercedes to tell Russell to hand sixth place back to Antonelli, which he did. They originally swapped the running order of their drivers following several laps of furious lobbying by Russell. Antonelli requested the place back after Russell lost his grip on fifth.

Hamilton recovered to eighth place after his penalty, while Esteban Ocon ensured Haas scored points with both cars. Gabriel Bortoleto took the final point for Sauber with an aggressive pass on Isack Hadjar, while Yuki Tsunoda again came away point-less for Red Bull.

Fernando Alonso, Nico Hulkenberg and Liam Lawson failed to reach the chequered flag with various car problems. Lawson also suffered a nasty shock when he arrived at turn one on lap three to find two marshals crossing the circuit, an incident the FIA will investigate.

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