Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri disqualified from F1 Las Vegas GP

McLaren has obtained a double disqualification from the Las Vegas Grand Prix as a result of each of its Method 1 vehicles failed to fulfill the minimal thickness requirement of the rear skid block.

It means Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have respectively misplaced their second and fourth-place finishes from Saturday evening, having breached Article 3.5.9 e) of the 2025 F1 technical rules.

This states: “The thickness of the plank meeting measured regular to the decrease floor have to be 10mm ± 0.2mm and have to be uniform when new.

“A minimal thickness of 9mm shall be accepted resulting from put on, and conformity to this provision shall be checked on the peripheries of the designated holes.”

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Mercedes pair George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli have consequently moved as much as second and third behind winner Max Verstappen, who took his sixth victory of the season.

Verstappen’s hopes of a fifth consecutive title have additionally now elevated as a result of he’s solely 24 factors behind chief Norris with two grands prix and a dash race remaining. The Dutchman is joint-second with Piastri.

Lando Norris, McLaren, Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing, George Russell, Mercedes

Photograph by: Mario Renzi – Method 1 – Getty Pictures

That’s regardless of Piastri main the standings for a lot of the 12 months; he even led by 34 factors on the finish of August, however his ongoing podium-less streak of six grands prix has all however ended hopes of a maiden title.

Verstappen nonetheless wants extra fortune to win this 12 months’s championship, however the image is rather a lot higher than the 42-point deficit he initially confronted after Vegas, the place the fifth and sixth disqualifications of 2025 occurred.

The primary three occurred at spherical two in Shanghai, the place the vehicles of Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly had been 1kg underweight, inflicting them to lose respectively fifth and eleventh.

Leclerc’s Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton, in the meantime, misplaced his sixth-place outcome on the Chinese language Grand Prix due to extreme put on on his rear skid block.

It was solely two races later that the fourth disqualification of 2025 occurred, as a result of Nico Hulkenberg misplaced thirteenth on the Bahrain Grand Prix after his Sauber failed to fulfill the minimal thickness requirement for the rear skid block.

None of these cases price a driver a podium like Norris in Vegas although, with the final time that occuring being the 2024 Belgian Grand Prix.

Russell led a Mercedes 1-2 throughout the road, however his W15 was later discovered to be 1.5kg underweight, that means Hamilton collected his one hundred and fifth and most up-to-date grand prix win.

Hamilton was additionally the final driver to lose a runner-up end by way of disqualification earlier than Vegas, as a result of his Mercedes had extreme rear skid block put on on the 2023 United States GP – thus handing second to Norris on the day.

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2025 Las Vegas GP prime 10

1. Max Verstappen2. George Russell3. Andrea Kimi Antonelli4. Charles Leclerc5. Carlos Sainz6. Isack Hadjar7. Nico Hulkenberg8. Lewis Hamilton9. Esteban Ocon10. Oliver Bearman

Pictures from Las Vegas GP – Race

Lando Norris, McLaren, Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing