{"id":502847,"date":"2025-10-19T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=502847"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:54:30","slug":"verstappen-triumphs-at-the-usa-gp-cuts-piastris-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-triumphs-at-the-usa-gp-cuts-piastris-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen triumphs at the USA GP, cuts Piastri&#8217;s lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen continues to dream of securing 5th world title after he triumphed at the U.S. GP, and now he has cut the lead even further to the leader, Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar finished 5<sup>th<\/sup> after having problems in the past few days, meaning the Dutch won 15 more points than the championship leader, and now he is 40 points behind Piastri.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MAX WINS IN DOMINANT STYLE!! \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen moves himself firmly into the championship fight with an impressive victory in Austin \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iyaFgTycrj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iyaFgTycrj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1980010522691961156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris also cut the lead to his teammate after finishing 2<sup>nd,<\/sup> and now Lando is only 14 points behind the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place with 5 races until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The victory of Max means that he has closed the gap to Oscar by 69 points in the last 4 races and is also 26 points behind 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-placed Lando.<\/p>\n<p>That was Red Bull\u2019s racer&#8217;s 3rd victory in the past 4 races, as he also triumphed at the spring yesterday, while both of the pilots of McLaren were unable to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Max finished almost 8 seconds ahead of Norris as 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 4<sup>th<\/sup> were both Ferraris &#8211; Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton ahead of the championship leader, who finished 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the USA GP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Thank you very much everyone!&quot; \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p>An appreciative Max Verstappen signs off his victory with congratulations for his Red Bull team \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#USGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gAM64GHaEN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gAM64GHaEN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1980028936223437264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen continues to dream of securing 5th world title after he triumphed at the U.S. GP, and now he has cut the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":502849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17288,26912],"news_category":[16921,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17971,26913],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Max dominated the race at the U.S. Grand Prix and cut his trail to the leader.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502848,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502847\/revisions\/502848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502847"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=502847"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=502847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}