- Verstappen drops to fourth with five-second penalty
- Ferrari’s Leclerc and Sainz finish fourth and fifth
Lando Norris won the sprint race at the São Paulo Grand Prix for McLaren with the team choosing to employ team orders to have his teammate Oscar Piastri cede the lead to maximise the British driver’s points advantage over world championship Max Verstappen. The Dutchman finished third but was later given a five-second penalty dropping him to fourth. Piastri was second, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc third and Carlos Sainz fifth
Piastri led from pole for the entire race until lap 22 of the 24 when he moved over for his teammate but the team had made it clear early in the sprint, their intent was to switch the two drivers in Norris’s favour and Piastri had been explicit beforehand he would not have an issue doing so.
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