Overview
- Norris clinched the championship by two points after finishing third, with Max Verstappen winning the race and Oscar Piastri taking second.
- McLaren split strategies by starting Piastri on hard tyres, a move Red Bull said caught them out and curtailed their tactical responses.
- After an early stop left him in traffic, Norris overtook Yuki Tsunoda, who had been instructed to delay him and later received a five-second penalty for risky defending.
- The result delivered McLaren's first drivers' crown since 2008 and made Norris Britain’s 11th Formula 1 world champion.
- Norris described the triumph as a long journey and said he cried on the podium, while Lewis Hamilton revealed he advised him before the weekend to change nothing in his preparation.