Lando Norris wins 2025 Formula 1 championship
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Lando Norris won his first Formula One championship at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit on Sunday. The following charts the key moments of the title battle between the Briton, McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
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Vettel was always the outside bet. He’d become F1’s youngest race winner in 2008, aged 21, but the pressure of his first championship fight through 2010 had tolled at points with some on-track errors. At no point had he led the standings, and it was only thanks to a late-season surge with wins in Japan and Brazil that he’d stayed in the hunt.
The Abu Dhabi race should be an electric showdown between the three drivers. Norris enters with a recent string of strong performances, including three podium finishes in the last six races. As long as Norris places within the top-three finishers in Abu Dhabi, he will finish as the world champion .
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Red Bull Racing announced that Isack Hadjar would be promoted from Racing Bulls to replace Yuki Tsunoda next season. Hadjar will be the fourth teammate for Verstappen in the last three seasons, as the team has struggled to find someone to remotely keep pace with the four-time champion.