Norris took the championship lead for the first time since April, but he's only one point ahead of Piastri with four races left

Norris now leads the way from team-mate Piastri by a solitary point with four rounds of the season remaining, while Verstappen is 36 points back from the Brit in P1. The four-time world champion did reduce the arrears by four points in Mexico, but that rate of progression will not be enough to topple the McLaren duo.

LANDO NORRIS has somehow become the pantomime villain in F1 while he charges to the title. The McLaren 25-year-old has now been booed at two Grands Prix this season after standing on the podium.

With McLaren so dominant in the first half of the season, Norris’ task looked colossal. The destiny of the title was still in his hands, but to get back on top he needed nothing less than five wins in a row – assuming Piastri finished second in all of them. That would have been just enough to swing the 35 points.