Race debrief

Two points: that’s how close Max Verstappen came to equalling Michael Schumacher’s feat of winning five consecutive Formula 1 world championships, despite having fallen more than 100 points behind in

The season ended rapid-fire on consecutive weekends and amid those shots a new world champion was crowned. In Vegas Max Verstappen re-lit the dying embers of his title challenge with a victory around

During the summer break, Piastri pointed to Bahrain and Barcelona as two of his best drives; after that, his efforts in Qatar surely stand among them in a hell-for-leather exhibition of directed rage

McLaren man took the crown, but it was a close-run and tense season.

Lando Norris began the season in style – well, almost – with victory in the Australian Grand Prix. He qualified his McLaren on pole and recovered from synchronised grass-tracking with Oscar Piastri am

The surface colours of the season constantly changed but the background of its canvas was always papaya as McLaren delivered a formidable weapon for its drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri; the unv