Lando Norris claimed his first grand prix victory in Miami last year, after his peers such as George Russell, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jnr did the same.
But last weekend he reached double digits before all of them. His Mexican Grand Prix victory was the 10th of his career, making him the 36th driver in Formula 1 history to take that many wins.
He also scored the 14th pole position of his career. Norris therefore has as many wins and poles as one of his most famous predecessors at McLaren: 1976 world champion James Hunt. Like Norris he scored all his pole positions while at McLaren but one of his wins – his first – came at Hesketh.
Norris gave McLaren their first Mexican Grand Prix victory since Ayrton Senna’s triumph in 1989. Coincidentally, their respective team mates also finished fifth in the same race. It was McLaren’s fourth win in the race; Red Bull hold the record for the most with five.
Leclerc took the chequered flag over half a minute behind Norris – 30.324 seconds, to be exact. This was the biggest winning margin for a driver since Max Verstappen won the Hungarian Grand Prix by 33.731s over Norris two years ago.
Ferrari’s wait for their first grand prix win of 2025 therefore goes on. Excluding sprint races (Lewis Hamilton won for them in Shanghai) it’s now more than a full year since their last victory, when Sainz led the field home in Mexico last year. Their last 12-month win-less spell ended when Sainz won the 2023 Singapore Grand Prix and they haven’t had a win-less season since 2021.
Norris came close to achieving a ‘grand slam’ as he also led every lap from start to finish. He’s managed this twice before, both times last year, in Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
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But he missed out on the fastest lap, partly because he used a one-stop strategy and therefore wasn’t lapping as quickly as his rivals late in the race. Russell instead claimed the fastest lap, for the 11th time in his career. Remarkably, this was the fourth time in the last five Mexican grands prix that Mercedes have set the fastest lap, despite not winning any of those races.
Leclerc recorded his 50th podium finish while Verstappen took his 123rd. That moved him past Sebastian Vettel into third place in the all-time list behind Hamilton (202) and Michael Schumacher (155).
Hamilton had his best chance yet to score his first podium finish for Ferrari after claiming his best starting position for the team to date with third place. However he is now just four rounds away from ending the season without appearing on the rostrum for the first time in his 19-year career. That’s a particularly sobering thought for Hamilton as Leclerc’s podium was his seventh this year.
Oliver Bearman matched Hamilton’s best finish of the season to date by taking fourth place. He also equalled Haas’s best-ever result in F1, previously achieved by Romain Grosjean in the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix.
This was a particularly noteworthy result as the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez was one of Haas’s weakest circuits for a long time. Prior to last year they had only scored points there once: Kevin Magnussen’s eighth place in 2017. They have now scored back-to-back double points finishes in Mexico City.
That result propelled Bearman up five places to 13th in the drivers’ standings. With four rounds left the nine drivers from Nico Hulkenberg in ninth to Yuki Tsunoda in 17th are covered by just 13 points.
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2025 Mexican Grand Prix
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- Mexico’s motorsport authority blames Lawson for near-miss with marshals in race
- Analysis: ‘Perfect McLaren driver’ would have won the world championship in Mexico
- Mercedes admit they took too long over team orders decision in Mexico