Overview
- Lando Norris leads the 2025 standings 390–366 after overturning Oscar Piastri’s 34-point post-Dutch GP advantage to a 24-point deficit over six races.
- At the Interlagos restart, Piastri’s move on Andrea Kimi Antonelli caused contact that also took out Charles Leclerc, undercutting his final podium chance.
- The stewards deemed Piastri solely at fault under the Driving Standards Guidelines and issued a 10-second time penalty.
- F1 analyst Christian Danner criticized the sporting impact of the sanction as an intervention in the championship yet acknowledged it was consistent with the written guidelines.
- McLaren boss Andrea Stella points to low-grip conditions and tyre behavior as contributors, while data show an unusual spike in errors, a growing pace gap to Norris, and only a modest Brazil race-pace rebound.