Sergio Perez believes his former team-mate Max Verstappen will finish the job and take the 2025 Formula 1 drivers' championship this year, adding that the Red Bull star "deserves" it after his form so far this season.

Norris now leads the way from team-mate Piastri by a solitary point with four rounds of the season remaining, while Verstappen is 36 points back from the Brit in P1. The four-time world champion did reduce the arrears by four points in Mexico, but that rate of progression will not be enough to topple the McLaren duo.

F1 champion Max Verstappen has explained Red Bull’s team radio fiasco involving Gianpiero Lambiase during the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday. Strategy decisions usually take place behind the scenes in F1, but during last Sunday’s race those watching at home were let into Red Bull’s strategy deliberations when Lambiase made an error.

Max Verstappen has been steadily closing the gap on McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in the F1 title race.

Winning four consecutive Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship titles with Red Bull Racing has helped make Max Verstappen one of the richest Dutch people at 28

Four-time world champion Max Verstappen's hopes of staging the mother of all comebacks in Formula One history suffered a massive blow on Sunday when Lando Norris secured the Mexican Grand Prix. Following a sublime performance at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez,

Formula 1's Mexico City Grand Prix reached a somewhat anti-climactic end as Max Verstappen was denied a late assault on Charles Leclerc due to a controversial v

Max Verstappen gained ground in the title race but is less sure of his chances after Mexico; Verstappen was 104 points off the lead at the end of August but now trails Lando Norris by 36 points; watch the Sao Paulo GP Sprint weekend on November 7-9,

The stewards ruled that Hamilton, who was battling for third place with his old championship foe Max Verstappen, had left the track and gained a lasting advantage at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez’s Turn 4, resulting in a 10-second time penalty.

Max Verstappen has argued that his crash with George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix earlier this season ‘might have been a good thing that happened’, despite costing the four-time world champion priceless points in his World Championship fight.

Whats changed for new title leader Lando Norris? Can Oscar Piastri end his difficult run? And how big a threat to both McLarens does Max Verstappen remain? watch the Sao Paulo Grand Prix next up on Sky Sports F1,