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Relive Norris’ Sao Paulo Sprint win as Piastri crashes
Grey skies and a damp circuit were not enough to dissuade Lando Norris from storming to victory in the Sao Paulo Sprint, narrowly beating the Mercedes duo of Kimi Antonelli and George Russell.
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Antonelli energised by 'very fun' P2 finish in Sao Paulo Sprint
Kimi Antonelli has admitted that “confidence is high” at Mercedes despite the competitive nature of the field, after he was able to challenge Lando Norris during the Sprint at Interlagos and secure a spot on the podium.
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FIA post-Sprint press conference – Brazil
1. Lando Norris (McLaren), 2. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes), 3. George Russell (Mercedes)
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Bortoleto misses out on Sao Paulo Qualifying after Sprint crash
Gabriel Bortoleto suffered a major crash on the final lap of the Sprint at Interlagos and missed out on Sao Paulo Grand Prix Qualifying as a result.
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Oliver Bearman gets penalty for "dangerous driving" in Liam Lawson Brazil GP sprint battle
Oliver Bearman has been penalised for driving in a "manner potentially deemed dangerous" in Formula 1's Brazil Grand Prix sprint race after tangling with Liam Lawson on the opening lap.
The Briton takes a five-second penalty in his overall sprint race time, in which he finished 12th ahead of Lawson, although this will not affect his final position. Bearman was also awarded a single penalty ...Keep reading
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Oscar Piastri takes blame for Brazil F1 sprint crash as rivals highlight Lando Norris "Mario Kart" move
Oscar Piastri took full responsibility for his crash during the Brazil Grand Prix sprint race, which continued his capitulation in the 2025 Formula 1 world title fight.
The McLaren driver was running third just moments before he spun out on lap six after he took too much kerb at Turn 3 in damp conditions at Interlagos.
It means he is now nine points behind team-mate and title rival Lando ...Keep reading
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Toto Wolff hails Kimi Antonelli as Mercedes shows pace in Brazil GP weekend
Toto Wolff has praised his rookie driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli after an impressive drive to second in the Brazil Grand Prix sprint race. With the young Italian putting pressure on championship leader Lando Norris, both he and team-mate George Russell boasted impressive pace at Interlagos.
Speaking to Sky Sports F1, Wolff was quick to compliment his driver, but not before addressing Sauber ...Keep reading
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Gabriel Bortoleto involved in violent crash during Brazil sprint race
Gabriel Bortoleto escaped a brutal crash on the final lap of the Brazil Grand Prix sprint race during a move on Williams driver Alex Albon. It ended with a heavy impact at Turn 1 of the Interlagos track.
Chasing Albon into the Senna S as the Brazilian hoped to overtake the British-Thai driver ahead of the chequered flag, Bortoleto dived for an overtake but lost traction as his car's DRS closed ...Keep reading
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Max Verstappen on why MotoGP tempts him: "If I had the talent!"
Max Verstappen has revealed that if he hadn't been successful in his four-wheeled racing career, he would have instead chased a life in MotoGP.
Speaking on the Pelas Pistas podcast alongside Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto, the four-time champion didn't hesitate when he was asked which racing series he loves the most.
"MotoGP," he confirmed, before adding: “If I could choose ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly utilised the potential he’d shown on Friday, where double-waved yellow flags for Charles Leclerc’s spin meant he couldn’t improve enough to advance to SQ3.
Gasly moved from 13th to eighth on the grid, including a nice late-race overtake on Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin.
The best part for Gasly and Alpine is that unless other teams make big strides with post-sprint race set-up changes, it can fight for more points on Sunday - not a sentence we’ve been able to write very often about Alpine in 2025. - JS Loser - Sauber (16th and 18th) https://www.the-race.com/content/images/2025/11/XPB_1384531_HiRes.jpg
Brazil’s sprint race has left Sauber counting its pennies after both its drivers catapulted their cars into various walls around the Interlagos circuit.
Nico Hulkenberg, who started 10th, was the first Sauber to crash after he spun the car off the wet kerb on the exit of Turn 3. He was able to get the car back to the pits, and was lucky a red flag was called, as this gave the Sauber mechanics a chance to fix the damage. The team rushed to put a new front wing and rear wing on the car, which was finished minutes before the race restarted.
Gabriel Bortoleto suffered an even more dramatic crash after he lost control while trying to overtake Alex Albon, completely wrecking his Sauber in front of his home crowd.
The rookie was lucky not to collect Albon, who he was nowhere close enough to overtake. His team now has a monster job to repair the car for qualifying. - HSB Winner- Charles Leclerc (5th)
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A decent result for Leclerc on a track that isn’t really suiting a Ferrari that has to run low to the ground to be fast. Perhaps the lack of grip and need to stay away from the kerbs helped, relatively speaking, as undoubtedly did Piastri crashing out ahead.
To Leclerc’s credit, he made a fast start to gain some ground and also managed to battle his way past Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin, which to be fair was compromised by having to lift and coast - a pain Leclerc knows all to well given the usual limitations of his own car!
That perhaps took the shine off Alonso making a rare appearance among the sprint race points scorers, and Aston Martin’s struggles compounded by Lance Stroll slipping behind Gasly’s Alpine and out of the top eight. - BA Winner: Kimi Antonelli (2nd)
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At one point, it looked as if Antonelli was on course to take his first-ever sprint victory as he closed in on a struggling Norris in the final three laps.
Although it wasn’t meant to be on this occasion, Antonelli's Brazilian GP sprint still proved to be one of the highlights of his rookie campaign. This was a confident drive from start to finish as the rookie covered off challenges from Piastri on the first start, then Mercedes team-mate Russell on the restart.
While the red flag could have disrupted his rhythm, Antonelli kept his head down and powered his way to a maiden sprint podium.
Maybe the 19-year-old will be disappointed not to have won this time around, but this will surely give Antonelli the confidence he needs to continue a strong weekend so far. - EH
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The 'Mario Kart' role Norris played in Piastri's crash
https://www.the-race.com/content/images/2025/11/XPB_1384457_HiRes.jpg Lando Norris extended his Formula 1 championship lead by winning the sprint race in Brazil and inadvertently played a part in his main rival Oscar Piastri crashing out in the process.
Piastri shunted through Turn 3 early in the sprint after running over the Turn 2 exit kerb and losing the rear as he splashed through some water. Moments later Nico Hulkenberg and Franco Colapinto crashed in the same way, in the same place.
While this could have been coincidence, it was actually a consequence of Norris running wider than normal onto the exit kerb in the first place.
Kimi Antonelli, who was running second between the two McLarens when Piastri crashed, reported over the radio that Norris “hit the kerb and a lot of water went down”.
Onboard footage from both cars shows this very clearly, as it shows Norris is almost fully across the kerb with his front left wheel - which meant his left rear wheel did the same - and on Antonelli’s onboard the spray being kicked up is very visible.
Antonelli did not go over the kerb on that lap, though, and in fact was taking care to avoid interacting with the wet kerbs in general.
"I was just trying to stay away from the kerbs during the whole race, because it was very, very tricky, especially at the beginning," Antonelli said.
"So especially when I saw him [Norris], lifting water, I tried to take a bit more care, just to avoid any spin or moments, because it was really crucial to make it tidy in order to make it through as well."
This meant Piastri was the first car after Norris to hit the kerb with water displaced more onto the surface - something George Russell who was fifth on track at the time, jokingly likened to Norris dropping a banana peel as if playing Mario Kart.
Russell called Norris the "smartest guy on the grid", although this was tongue in cheek as well, and there is obviously no indication this was intentional from Norris. But the effect was real.
Several drivers had used that exit kerb to different degrees over the first few laps. There was little consistency in the lines because the track was damp into the first corner, causing a lot of small variations through the Esses, but it was clear that the exit kerb was usable.
This is also supported by how much Norris was able to run over it without consequence, as all that did was disturb whatever water had pooled within the kerb - rather than run the tyre over it directly.
"It’s a kerb you always use, like in qualy, we use it a lot," Norris confirmed. "When it’s wet conditions like this, you want to stay off all the kerbs, so I ran a little bit wide and I saw the water come onto the track."
Immediately after Piastri’s shunt, Max Verstappen had a near-miss. The world champion essentially replicated Piastri’s line and had a huge slide that he managed to catch.
Just behind, Fernando Alonso ran his left-rear wheel fully over the exit kerb and through the water too, but avoided spinning.
Hulkenberg took a bit more kerb than Piastri so it was no surprise he suffered the same fate, while Colapinto had just gathered up a big moment into Turn 1, so seemed to be off line and potentially with a little bit of water on his tyres.
Whether simply unfortunate or guilty of not mitigating the risk as well as other drivers who did not crash, the consequence for being on the wrong side of such fine margins was obviously biggest for Piastri, who called it a "silly mistake really, or unfortunate mistake".
He not only lost a likely top-three finish in the sprint he is now nine points behind Norris in the championship instead of three, had he finished where he was running at the time of the crash.
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Bortoleto cleared after monster Brazil sprint crash
https://www.the-race.com/content/images/2025/11/XPB_1384535_HiRes.jpg Gabriel Bortoleto has been cleared after precautionary medical checks necessitated by his monster crash at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race.
Bortoleto was trying to pass Alex Albon for 10th as he started his final lap of the Interlagos sprint.
As he closed on the Williams approaching Turn 1, it looked like Bortoleto moved out to attempt a dive inside, but he immediately lost control as he changed direction on part of the track that was still damp.
Bortoleto’s DRS appeared to still be open when he changed direction, although whether he moved before lifting and should have disengaged it himself, or he had lifted and it did not shut for some reason, is unclear.
Isack Hadjar, the car directly behind Bortoleto, clearly had his DRS flap shut well before the corner.
Bortoleto’s Sauber speared nose-first into the inside barrier then back across the track - narrowly avoiding Albon’s car - before suffering a second, more violent impact on the outside that tipped the car onto its side.
His car came to a rest in the run-off area on the outside of Turn 1 with substantial damage, although Bortoleto immediately told his team he was OK. Bortoleto had precautionary checks in the medical centre and is uninjured.
It meant both Saubers suffered big accidents in the race, as Nico Hulkenberg was one of three cars to crash on lap six through Turn 3 after hitting a damp kerb on the exit of Turn 2.
Hulkenberg was able to rejoin the race but finished at the back, only ahead of Albon - who dropped down the order on the final lap as Bortoleto’s front wing got lodged in his car.
Another driver to go to the medical centre for precautionary checks after this race was Franco Colapinto, another of the lap six victims at Turn 3, who is also OK.
Sauber and Alpine now have some time-pressured repair jobs to get the cars ready for grand prix qualifying.
ico Hulkenberg (Sauber)
17. Alex Albon (Williams)
DNF: Oscar Piastri (McLaren), Franco Colapinto (Alpine), Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)
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Alpine F1's Steve Nielsen: Talent, not money, sealed the deal for Franco Colapinto
Alpine managing director Steve Nielsen has shared details of the decision to extend Franco Colapinto's contract, which was announced ahead of practice 1 in Brazil.
The Argentinian driver will remain with the French team in 2026 alongside team-mate Pierre Gasly.
Colapinto joined Alpine on a multi-year deal ahead of the 2025 season as a reserve driver and replaced Jack Doohan in a full-time ...Keep reading
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Why is Sebastian Vettel at the 2025 Brazil Grand Prix?
Four-time Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel is present at the Brazil Grand Prix this weekend.
After retiring from the championship at the end of the 2022 season, the German driver has worked to raise awareness of various social and environmental issues.
He returns to Interlagos to raise awareness of protecting the Amazon rainforest.
"I’m back in Brazil," Vettel explained on Instagram ...Keep reading
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Piastri explains ‘unfortunate’ Sao Paulo Sprint crash
Oscar Piastri has given his take on the crash that put him out of the Sprint at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with the Australian labelling the incident a “silly mistake”.
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Verstappen admits Red Bull ‘need to find something now’ after Sprint
Max Verstappen conceded after the Sprint at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix that Red Bull “need to find something now” if they hope to be more competitive in Qualifying, the Dutchman having ended the 100-kilometre dash in fourth place.
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LIVE COVERAGE: Q3 underway after shock Verstappen Q1 exit
Live coverage of the Formula 1 Qualifying session for the 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix in Brazil.
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Williams shares heartfelt tribute to Jenson Button ahead of racing retirement
The Williams Formula 1 team has shared a heartfelt tribute to 2009 F1 champion Jenson Button as he retires from racing.
The British driver is competing in his final World Endurance Championship race in Bahrain today.
After entering his rookie F1 season in 2000, he accumulated 15 grand prix wins, eight pole positions, eight fastest laps and a championship victory in 2009 before he retired ...Keep reading
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Ferrari is too slow on straights – and can’t understand why
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton lamented their Ferrari Formula 1 car’s lack of top speed after the Brazil Grand Prix sprint – and were at a loss to explain it.
Leclerc and Hamilton qualified eighth and 11th respectively for the sprint, with Leclerc openly struggling with the SF-25’s instability, which has been a recurrent theme this season.
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Max Verstappen’s blunt verdict on Brazil GP sprint pace: "In no man's land"
Four-time Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen has claimed he was in "no man's land" during the Brazil Grand Prix sprint race.
The Dutchman crossed the line in fourth after starting from sixth, but was 4.423 seconds behind race winner Lando Norris.
"We will make some changes and hopefully that will bring the car in a better window," Verstappen explained to the media after the race. "Hopefully ...Keep reading
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Andrea Stella: Oscar Piastri will reset quickly after "unforgiving" Brazil F1 crash
McLaren team boss Andrea Stella says Oscar Piastri will "reset very quickly" after his Formula 1 Brazil sprint crash cost him eight championship points to winning team-mate Lando Norris.
On lap 6 of Saturday morning's damp 24-lap contest, Piastri lost control of his McLaren on the wet kerbs on the inside of Turn 3. The Australian spun out and tagged the barriers to end his race, losing third ...Keep reading
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F1 Brazil GP: Lando Norris wins sprint as Oscar Piastri crashes out
Lando Norris reinforced his Formula 1 championship lead after winning a red-flagged sprint race at Interlagos, while title rival Oscar Piastri crashed out of third.
Norris started Saturday morning's 24-lap race from pole, with the Sao Paulo circuit still damp in places following overnight showers. The medium-shod Briton held the lead from soft tyre starter Mercedes' Andrea Kimi Antonelli and ...Keep reading
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Oscar Piastri crashes out of F1 Brazil GP sprint race in championship blow
Oscar Piastri has crashed out of the Brazil Grand Prix sprint race, causing a red flag and adding pressure to his championship fight.
On the seventh lap of the sprint, the Australian driver dipped a tyre onto the kerb, picked up water and, as a result, crashed into the barriers on the inside of Turn 3. Closely following Piastri, Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg and Alpine's Franco Colapinto were ...Keep reading
ere's so much at stake, it's all about the driver staying focused on the process, putting one foot in front of another and then, hopefully, the outcome is the result you want. We know he's a cool character and any inner turmoil is undetectable from the outside so it's impossible for us to truly know how it's impacting him.
One thing’s for sure, though. In a 24-event season there will be lows and it's how you rebound from them that counts. Today put a dent in his title hopes but it's essential Piastri, over the next few hours, deals with that, internalises the fact that it's not a disaster and that he can pick himself up and do the job in qualifying proper and the grand prix. After all, that's what champions do. Momentum is now with Norris Gary Anderson
For Piastri it was a very small mistake but hugely costly. I'm pretty sure that, as was said in commentary, Norris clipping that kerb brought water out of the kerb onto the top of it and onto that little section of the track so when Piastri arrived he also clipped it but the overall grip wasn’t there in the damp condition.
He is now nine points behind. Yes, the big points at Interlagos are still to come but based on Norris’s performance in Mexico and now here the momentum is definitely in Norris’s favour.
Both Mercedes cars look like they could be in with a shout come qualifying for the grand prix and also the race. Verstappen is not a happy camper but you can never count him out, so that could influence who scores the big points come Sunday.
So far Ferrari is not really at the races here and I doubt if Alonso will repeat his sprint qualifying performance for the big event.
So I think pole and a race win is between the McLarens, Verstappen and Mercedes. Norris is peaking at the right time Josh Suttill
You can definitely feel for Piastri but at the end of the day, he was the one who made the error and Norris didn't - and Norris didn't when he had Antonelli right behind him and ready to snatch the win in the closing laps.
It really feels like Norris's season is peaking at exactly the right time. He had arguably his best-ever F1 weekend in Mexico and even when Piastri was looking closer to him on Friday in Brazil, Norris executed things better.
Those early-season errors just aren't present right now and since missing out on capitalising on Piastri's nightmare Baku weekend, he's putting together a really strong run of form.
It's form that is clearly good enough to win a championship if it can be sustained, especially as it's looking like McLaren still has enough of a car advantage over Red Bull.
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Winners and losers from F1's Brazil sprint race
https://www.the-race.com/content/images/2025/11/XPB_1384453_HiRes.jpg Formula 1's title race took another significant turn in the sprint race in the 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix as Oscar Piastri crashed out.
Here are our picks for the biggest winners and losers from the race, which as you'd expect kicks off with Piastri... Loser - Oscar Piastri (DNF)
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An obvious choice given he crashed out of third place in a race that his McLaren team-mate and chief title rival Lando Norris won.
Piastri will be cursing his luck for running over that Turn 3 kerb just moments after Norris, of all people, had clambered across it and thrown up loads of standing water.
This played a major role in Piastri’s misfortune, rather like deploying banana skins in a Mario Kart race (as George Russell himself observed!).
The gap is out to nine points now, but Piastri cannot dwell on that. He just has to put it out of his mind and focus on trying to take pole for the race that really counts. - Ben Anderson Winner - Max Verstappen (4th) https://www.the-race.com/content/images/2025/11/XPB_1384506_HiRes.jpg
Things clearly aren’t right with the RB21 at Interlagos and parc ferme’s reopening couldn’t have come soon enough.
So for Max Verstappen to gain two positions from his grid start and take fourth place while Piastri scored nothing is decent championship damage limitation.
Plus Verstappen and his race engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, get bonus points for another vintage sarcastic exchange during the red flag stoppage, as Verstappen bemoaned his bouncing car's lack of grip and Lambiase tried to advise Max on some strategies to prevent him "oversteering into Turn 1 every lap".
The big question now becomes whether that opportunity for some post-sprint race set-up changes are enough for Red Bull to reduce McLaren’s advantage.
Otherwise, Verstappen will undoubtedly be a loser after GP qualifying later. - Josh Suttill Loser - Franco Colapinto (DNF) https://www.the-race.com/content/images/2025/11/XPB_1384487_HiRes.jpg
It’s unfortunate for Colapinto that he should suffer yet another big accident just after Alpine announced he would be retained for 2026.
Being fast, scoring points and not crashing are the three things Flavio Briatore demands and on a weekend when Pierre Gasly is showing the car is capable of being in the points, Colapinto is so far failing in his mission.
You have to wonder if Briatore will now be breathing down his neck again after another hefty crash bill and a lot of extra work created for the Alpine mechanics.
The saving grace for Colapinto this time is that two more experienced drivers suffered very similar accidents that were in part triggered by another driver dragging up water onto the Turn 3 kerb, so it's difficult to be too critical of Franco in a treacherous race of such fine margins. - Hamish Shackleton Bailey Winner: Lando Norris (1st)
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Norris had one job: to convert his sprint pole to victory, and he did exactly that. Leading all the way from lights to flag, the only time things got tough was when the soft tyres he took for the red flag restart began to give up and Kimi Antonelli's Mercedes closed in.
Although he faced a strong challenge from Antonelli near the end, Norris had just enough tyre to cover off any potential move and cruise over the line for his second F1 sprint victory in 2025.
Given the results of his championship rivals, the eight points he earned for his win may be some of the most vital of the season so far. - Eden Hannigan Winner - Pierre Gasly (8th)
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Our verdict on Piastri's Brazil F1 sprint disaster
https://www.the-race.com/content/images/2025/11/XPB_1384464_HiRes.jpg Just as his Formula 1 title bid seemed to be getting back on course with his improved pace in Brazil, Oscar Piastri cost himself more points by crashing out of the sprint.
Here are our thoughts on his mistake and the consequences. A more complex error than it seemed Scott Mitchell-Malm
I thought this was just a straightforward, if slightly unfortunate, PIastri error at first - the kind he desperately didn't need.
But two other cars shunting in the same way was immediately eyebrow raising.
A closer look at the onboards of several cars on that lap, and earlier in the race, tells a different story. Norris, as the following Kimi Antonelli reported, ran wide over the kerb and kicked up a lot of spray. That totally changed the grip on the exit of the corner.
Piastri shunted there, so did two Nico Hulkenberg and Franco Colapinto, but others flirted with disaster too. Verstappen caught a massive slide. Fernando Alonso dropped his left rear all the way over the kerb and kicked up a lot of spray too.
What's hard to discern from the outside is how much each driver was or wasn't mitigating the risk level with throttle inputs and so on in those moments, and whether Piastri created a bigger problem for himself or was just unlucky being the first driver on that kerb after Lando Norris. If he hadn't been, would Max Verstappen have crashed instead? It's impossible to say.
There's a degree of responsibility, but it's more luck than judgement at that point. You could argue that using the kerb at all in the wet is pointlessly risky but the fact is several drivers did, to different degrees, over the first six laps and it was fine.
In that sense it was no different to driving across the parts of the damp track that simply haven't dried yet. The kerb was a perfectly usable extension of the track for the first five laps of the race, but then became suddenly perilous. Tiny inaccuracy punished Ben Anderson
He has to try to put it straight out of his mind. It's a nasty blow in the title race, but there's still an awful lot of time and points left before the game is up.
The timing is unfortunate, coming straight after that really difficult run of races in the United States and Mexico, but it's not like Piastri did something horrendously wrong.
Norris climbed over that kerb and got away with it. Verstappen too (just about). For Piastri (and Hulkenberg, and especially Colapinto) the outcome was more disastrous.
But those are the fine lines of racing in the wet. Going offline when water is collecting on kerbs and parts of the track are not yet dry is always fraught with danger.
What works one lap might not work the next, and the smallest inaccuracies in driving line can carry much heavier punishments.
Piastri ended up on the losing side of the gamble on this occasion. The only silver lining is that it was only the sprint, rather than the race that pays out the big points, so it's all still to play for. A revealing test of his mental strength Edd Straw
This scenario is a fascinating test of Piastri's resolve and mental strength. Yes, crashing out of the sprint was a blow but it wasn't a disaster given he's still only nine points off Norris.
The trouble is, in the moment it will have felt like a catastrophe and he must now reset and go into qualifying with a clear mind and execute to the best of his ability.
After his struggles in the USA and, particularly, Mexico, Piastri would have been desperate for a reset this weekend so this is the last thing he wanted. He mentioned on Thursday that he felt pushing a bit too hard was part of the reason why Baku went so badly for him but here he needs to avoid falling into that trap. That's easy to say, tough to do.
When th[...]
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F1 2026 grid: What is next season's driver line-up in Formula 1?
The 2025 Formula 1 season is not yet over but talk is already strife for next year, which is set to be one of the biggest in the championship’s history.
It will debut the forthcoming regulation switch with cars set to become lighter and smaller with a bigger emphasis on electrical power.
There will also be a new team added to the equation, as American outfit Cadillac will become F1’s ...Keep reading
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F1 Brazil GP: Lando Norris leads Oscar Piastri in McLaren 1-2 in FP1
Lando Norris topped Formula 1's sole free practice session at the Brazil Grand Prix sprint weekend ahead of Oscar Piastri.
Norris reclaimed the championship lead from Piastri after two difficult weekends for the Australian in Austin and Mexico, and backed up his form by topping F1's only practice session at Interlagos on F1's fifth of six 2025 sprint weekends. But Piastri also appeared to ...Keep reading
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How Franco Colapinto’s stay is just a small piece of Alpine's bigger F1 future
As widely expected, Franco Colapinto will return to his blue and pink #43 car next year at Alpine, with confirmation coming over the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend that Alpine big cheese Flavio Briatore is keeping the faith in the Argentinian to partner team stalwart Pierre Gasly for a pivotal 2026 season.
Briatore's decision was undoubtedly made easier by a brace of cheques written by ...Keep reading
