Max Verstappen continued his late charge at the Formula 1 drivers' championship with a win at the United States Grand Prix on Sunday.

With a controlled victory on race day in Austin, Max Verstappen has closed to just 40 points behind Oscar Piastri with five race weekends to go, having entered the event 63 points down on the Australian.

Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri says McLaren does not need to prioritise one driver over the other, as four-time world champion Max Verstappen continues to narrow the deficit to both.

Oscar Piastri has asked his McLaren team to resist choosing a number one driver despite the rising threat of Max Verstappen. The Dutchman scored 23 points more than the Aussie over the United States Grand Prix weekend with victories in both the Sprint race and the Grand Prix.

McLaren pair Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris were involved in a crash which took them out of the United States Grand Prix sprint race.

Lando Norris has revealed that McLaren has held him accountable for contact with teammate Oscar Piastri at the Singapore Grand Prix and that there "will be repe

Instead of bouncing back in Sprint qualifying in Austin, Piastri, by his own admission, had a “pretty scruffy lap” where he “just didn’t really get it together”. In a season in which Norris has been the one complaining about his qualifying laps, the Briton finished ahead of his teammate.

McLaren Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri appears to be settling into Texas life with ease, posting photos of a laid-back barbecue dinner in Austin ahead of the United States Grand Prix. Giant plates of food are probably not something the elite F1 athletes get a lot of back in Europe.