Nov 11, 2025, 03:19 PM ET<\/p>\n
The race to the 2025 F1<\/a> world drivers’ championship is heating up. After Red Bull’s Max Verstappen<\/a> won four consecutive titles, Lando Norris<\/a> and Oscar Piastri<\/a> of McLaren are looking to dethrone him.<\/p>\n Heading into the final races of the year, Norris leads his teammate by 24 points and Verstappen by 49. With 83 points remaining, here’s a look at the closest title battles in F1 history.<\/p>\n .5 points<\/p>\n 1 point<\/p>\n Mike Hawthorn over Stirling Moss (1958)<\/p>\n Phil Hill over Wolfgang von Trips (1961)<\/p>\n John Surtees over Graham Hill (1964)<\/p>\n James Hunt over Niki Lauda (1976)<\/p>\n Nelson Piquet over Carlos Reutemann (1981)<\/p>\n Michael Schumacher over Damon Hill (1994)<\/p>\n Kimi Raikkonen over Lewis Hamilton<\/a> (2007)<\/p>\n Lewis Hamilton over Felipe Massa (2008)<\/p>\n 2 points<\/p>\n Nelson Piquet over Alain Prost (1983)<\/p>\n Alain Prost over Nigel Mansell (1986)<\/p>\n Mika Hakkinen over Eddie Irvine (1999)<\/p>\n Michael Schumacher over Kimi Raikkonen (2003)<\/p>\n 3 points<\/p>\n Giuseppe Farina over Juan Manuel Fangio (1950)<\/p>\n Juan Manuel Fangio over Stirling Moss (1956)<\/p>\n Emerson Fittipaldi over Clay Regazzoni (1974)<\/p>\n Ayrton Senna over Alain Prost (1988)<\/p>\n Sebastian Vettel over Fernando Alonso<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n 4 points<\/p>\n Jack Brabham over Tony Brooks (1959)<\/p>\n Jody Scheckter over Gilles Villeneuve (1979)<\/p>\n Sebastian Vettel over Fernando Alonso (2010)<\/p>\n 5 points<\/p>\n Denny Hulme over Jack Brabham (1967)<\/p>\n Jochen Rindt over Jacky Ickx (1970)<\/p>\n Keke Rosberg over Didier Pironi (1982)<\/p>\n Nico Rosberg over Lewis Hamilton (2006)<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN Formula 1 hub page<\/a>, which features analysis<\/a>, standings<\/a>, the “Unlapped” podcast<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 11, 2025, 03:19 PM ET The race to the 2025 F1 world drivers’ championship is heating up.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-277121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}