07 Dec 2025 10:35PM (Updated: 07 Dec 2025 10:52PM)
ABU DHABI, Dec 7 : McLaren’s Lando Norris celebrated his first Formula One championship and ended Max Verstappen’s four-year reign with a nervy third place at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday.
Verstappen, winner of more races (eight) than any driver this year, triumphed in the season-ender with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri second.
Norris, who became Britain’s 11th Formula One world champion, ended the season with 423 points to Verstappen’s 421 and Piastri’s 410.
McLaren, who secured the constructors’ championship in October for the second year in a row, won both titles in the same season for the first time since 1998.
