Lando Norris showed a rare ‘demonstration of power’ over Oscar Piastri at the Mexican Grand Prix

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Lando Norris produced something that Timo Glock has rarely seen from the McLaren driver during the 2025 F1 season as the Briton won Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix.

The 25-year-old enjoyed a dominant victory around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, as he beat Ferrari racer Charles Leclerc by 30.324 seconds. Norris also regained the lead in the F1 drivers’ standings for the first time since April by a point over his teammate, Oscar Piastri.

Piastri saw Norris enjoy a 15-point swing in the drivers’ championship at the Mexico City GP, as the Australian only secured a P5 finish from P7 on the grid. The 24-year-old had also only qualified P8 as Norris scored pole, yet he profited from Carlos Sainz’s five-place grid penalty.

Norris scored pole for the Mexico City GP with a 1:15.586 lap time in Q3, as Piastri only set a 1:16.174. The papaya pals would also cross the finish line 42.065s apart on Sunday, as Piastri even finished behind Oliver Bearman as the Haas rookie secured his career-best result in P4.

Timo Glock saw a rare faultless race from Lando Norris to win the Mexico City Grand Prix

Norris has now outscored Piastri during each of the last five rounds of the 2025 F1 season to move one point clear of his McLaren teammate atop the drivers’ standings with four rounds to go. Piastri had led the standings since April’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in round five of 24.

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The style of Norris’ Mexico City GP win by 30.324s over Leclerc and by 42.065s to Piastri in P5 amazed Glock. The ex-Toyota F1 driver has rarely seen the Briton dictate a Grand Prix as easily as he managed in Mexico, which also sent a message with his lead over his teammate.

Glock told Sky Germany: “It was a demonstration of power, especially the lead he managed to build over his own teammate. He pulled a lead of almost 30 seconds over second-placed Charles Leclerc.

“It was dominance from start to finish and an incredibly controlled race, something we rarely see from him. There were always minor hiccups. He acted very cleverly at the start, found his rhythm and controlled the entire race from start to finish.”

Lando Norris produced the most dominant win of the 2025 F1 season so far in Mexico City

Norris achieved his sixth Grand Prix win through the first 20 rounds of the 2025 F1 season in Mexico last Sunday, which remains one victory fewer than Piastri has secured so far. It is also just one more win than Max Verstappen has for third in the standings with a 36-point deficit.

But Norris’ race pace in the Mexico City GP that astounded Verstappen meant the Briton set the new biggest winning margin so far this year and shattered the average gap between first and second place of 6.972s. Verstappen’s Italian GP win by 19.207s set the previous record.

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Yet unlike when Verstappen won the Italian GP by 19.207s over Norris due to McLaren trying an alternative strategy, the Bristol-born racer’s dominance in Mexico City was entirely of his own making. Norris also drove a faultless race after retaining the lead at the start on Sunday.

No driver could lay a glove on Norris once he left the Turn 1, 2, 3 sequence in the lead, while his rivals started scrapping from the off. Piastri would not enjoy the same success as he tried to climb up the order, ultimately only overtaking George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli.