{"id":226256,"date":"2025-10-20T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:22:07","slug":"2025-u-s-grand-prix-recap-f1-results-highlights-as-verstappen-eases-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226256\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 U.S. Grand Prix recap: F1 results, highlights as Verstappen eases to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen took a dominant victory at the U.S. Grand Prix &#8212; his third win in four races &#8212; to cut the points gap into the McLaren drivers in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen now stands 40 points behind Oscar Piastri, and 26 points behind Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/46603680\/us-grand-prix-max-verstappen-dominates-ahead-lando-norris-charles-leclerc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Laurence Edmondson&#8217;s race report<\/a> from Austin, and catch up on lap-by-lap action below.<\/p>\n<p>Join us again next week for the Mexico Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Key points<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen leads from pole, as Charles Leclerc gets ahead of Lando Norris up to P2<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz retired after colliding with Kimi Antonelli &#8212; the incident will be investigated after the race<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Piastri languishes down in 5th behind Lewis Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>Norris and Leclerc battle for second, as Norris is given a final warning (black and white flag) for exceeding track limits.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen wins by 7.9 seconds ahead of Norris, with Leclerc third. Hamilton finishes off the podium ahead of Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen took a dominant victory at the U.S. Grand Prix &#8212; his third win in four races&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-226256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}