Explaining how it stands in the ever-closer Drivers' Championship battle between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris as F1 returns at the US GP this week.
The Formula 1 season no one predicted resumes at the United States Grand Prix this weekend, live on Sky Sports F1, with Lando Norris aiming to increase the world title pressure on defending champion and points leader Max Verstappen. The Sprint weekend at Austin's sweeping Circuit of the Americas marks the first of the final six grands prix to the end of the season in Abu Dhabi on December 8 and is followed on successive weekends by Mexico and Brazil.
Instead, Daniel Ricciardo, somewhat controversially, took it away from Norris in his RB, Red Bull's sister team, by pitting for new tyres when running 17th late in the race and bettering the McLaren's benchmark time. Had the fastest lap stayed with him, Norris' deficit to Verstappen would instead have been 51 points.
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