Series leader Lando Norris grabbed his first sprint pole position of the season on Friday (local time) to keep his title hopes on track as he topped qualifying ahead of Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli and his McLaren teammate and rival Oscar Piastri.

The Formula 1 driver championship battle heads to Brazil this week with McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri fighting for the top spot.

Oscar Piastri is in danger of slipping further behind his teammate Lando Norris in the Formula One world championship despite a much improved performance in qualifying for the sprint race at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in Brazil.

Oscar Piastri has rubbished claims that McLaren is sabotaging him after the Aussie lost the lead in the F1 drivers’ championship last weekend.

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella can't see the battle between teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris 'escalating' into something more serious as both drivers compete for the Formula One world title.

McLaren's boss says he would rather Red Bull's Max Verstappen win the Formula 1 drivers' championship than prefer one of his racers over the other.

Oscar Piastri has become Sam Konstas. Everyone thinks he’s lost the plot, his mojo, his marbles. Expectations have reached ground zero and McLaren should probably drop him for Marnus Labuschagne. Give him a couple of years back in Formula 2 or the Sheffield Shield.

“It is due to the effect of the pressure when you have to step up. And you react differently,” Canada’s 1997 winner Villeneuve claimed, suggesting Piastri hadn’t been the same driver since the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, when he crashed twice and jumped the start.

McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are two of F1's highest-paid drivers, with Norris currently holding a higher net worth of $35 million compare

The final four weekends of the 2025 Formula 1 World Championship promise to be electric as the three-way fight between Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, and Max Verstappen moves towards a conclusion.