Overview
- Lando Norris led every lap and won the Mexico City Grand Prix by more than 30 seconds, moving one point ahead of Oscar Piastri with four races remaining.
- McLaren principal Andrea Stella said the low-grip, high-altitude conditions suited Norris’s style and exposed Piastri’s difficulties with rear stability.
- The team reworked the MCL39 setup after Singapore to better match Norris’s inputs, a shift linked to his dominant Mexico performance.
- Motorsport-Magazin’s data show Piastri has consistently trailed Norris at Austin and Mexico, including roughly three tenths lost in COTA qualifying this year and no sprint or race wins over him at those venues.
- Ex-driver Christijan Albers, writing in De Telegraaf and quoted by Ran, questioned McLaren’s operations and said Norris and Piastri are not in the sport’s absolute top tier, even as Max Verstappen remains a distant third in the standings.