New figures have revealed how much money each F1 driver has cost their respective teams in repairs throughout the 2025 season, with McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris coming out among the top damage earners. Sauber driver Gabriel Bortoleto comes out on top with a $5.4 million (AU) damage bill, largely thanks to a massive smash in the sprint race at last weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix.
He also crashed on the first lap in the main race in front of his home crowd, with Sauber forced to fork out over $5 million to repair the damages. Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda comes in second with $5m worth of damages, but it’s McLaren who have had to pay the most when you consider both drivers combined.
McLaren have had to pay a whopping $6.8m to repair damages sustained by Piastri and Norris, although it’s not the Aussie to blame for the most part. Championship leader Norris has incurred $4m of the damages, compared to $2.8m for Piastri.
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have racked up $6.8 million in damages. Image: Getty
Lance Stroll of Austin Martin comes in fourth behind Norris with $3.6m, while axed Aussie Jack Doohan had $3.2m before being punted by Alpine. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has $3m, partly because of an incident last weekend that saw Piastri handed a 10-second penalty that further dented his championship hopes.
Piastri has the seventh-most damages, while Isack Hadjar of Racing Bulls is eighth with $2.6m. Franco Colapinto, who replaced Doohan, is ninth with $2.4m, while Liam Lawson of Racing Bulls rounds out the top 10 damage earners with $2.2m.
Surprisingly, defending champion Max Verstappen incurred the least amount of damage among all drivers with just $350,000. He had small incidents in Miami, Austria and Brazil, but nothing major so far.
Gabriel Bortoleto has had a number of big crashes. Image: Getty
F1 drivers with highest damage bills in 2025:
Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber) – $5.4 million
Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull) – $5 million
Lando Norris (McLaren) – $4 million
Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) – $3.6 million
Jack Doohan (formerly with Alpine) – $3.2 million
Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) – $3 million
Oscar Piastri (McLaren) – $2.8 million
Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) – $2.6 million
Franco Colapinto (Alpine) – $2.4 million
Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) – $2.2 million
Oscar Piastri facing tricky task to win F1 championship
Some of the damage Piastri and Norris have caused has come while driving against each other. Norris infamously ran up the back of Piastri in the Canadian Grand Prix, which resulted in internal sanctions being imposed on the Brit.
Piastri then collided with Norris in the sprint race in the US Grand Prix, and the Aussie also came unstuck in last weekend’s sprint race in Brazil. Norris leads the F1 championship with just three rounds remaining in the season, and looks like he’ll be hard to beat.
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Norris is on 390 points, ahead of Piastri on 366 and Verstappen on 341. There’s 83 points on offer across the final three rounds, and Norris only needs to finish second in all three main races to clinch the championship.
There’s also a sprint remaining, but even if Piastri wins every race he needs things to conspire against Norris as well. It’s a bitter situation for the Aussie driver, who led the championship for a large part of the season before a recent run of poor form.