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Can Max Verstappen still win the 2025 F1 title? Our writers have their say

The events of last weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix have made people second guess whether Verstappen can win a fifth F1 title in 2025

Motorsport

Is Verstappen actually in the F1 2025 title fight?

The events of last weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix have made people second guess whether Verstappen can win a fifth F1 title in 2025

Autosport

Max Verstappen is back in F1 title race – here’s why McLaren should be worried

Analysis: A series of McLaren mishaps in Baku and a revitalised Red Bull car has, suddenly, given Verstappen an outside chance of an unprecedented comeback in the F1 championship fight

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Verstappen dismisses F1 title fight talk: "I don't rely on hope"

Back-to-back race winner Max Verstappen has emerged as an outside Formula 1 2025 championship contender after an underwhelming weekend for McLaren in Azerbaijan

Autosport

Max Verstappen shoots down F1 title talk: "I don't rely on hope"

Back-to-back race winner Max Verstappen has emerged as an outside Formula 1 2025 championship contender after an underwhelming weekend for McLaren in Azerbaijan

Motorsport

How Verstappen picked race-winning F1 Azerbaijan GP strategy for Red Bull

Laurent Mekies says Max Verstappen was the driving force behind Red Bull’s winning strategy in Baku, with a lesson from Monza in mind

Autosport

How Max Verstappen talked Red Bull into race-winning Baku F1 strategy

Laurent Mekies says Max Verstappen was the driving force behind Red Bull’s winning race strategy in Baku, with a lesson from Monza in mind

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McLaren on Oscar Piastri’s Baku F1 setback: ‘Even Michael Schumacher had poor ones’

Piastri is leading the F1 championship, but had a disastrous Baku weekend as he crashed out on lap one

Motorsport

Why podium was so important for Sainz in character-building Williams campaign

Carlos Sainz took an emotional first Williams podium in Baku to erase a frustrating maiden season with his new Formula 1 team

Autosport

Baku podium was a just reward for Carlos Sainz's tough Williams F1 campaign

Carlos Sainz took an emotional first Williams podium in Baku to erase a frustrating maiden season with his new Formula 1 team

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McLaren F1 boss ‘completely happy’ with Lando Norris’s race in Azerbaijan

Norris started and finished seventh on a weekend where title rival Oscar Piastri crashed out

The Independent UK

Who slept worst last night: Oscar Piastri

Oscar Piastri had an uncustomary poor weekend in Baku, and now needs to bounce back in Singapore for his championship bid not to unravel – with Max Verstappen still a plausible threat

Motorsport

Who slept best last night: Max Verstappen

By winning back-to-back races for the first time since last summer, Max Verstappen has the paddock wondering whether he still has a shot at this year’s title

Motorsport

Lando Norris defiant after failing to take advantage of Piastri’s Azerbaijan crash

Lando Norris said after finishing seventh in Baku after Oscar Piastri’s first-lap exit: ‘I’m doing the best I can. I don’t really care how people look at it’

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After Baku brilliance, here's why Singapore GP is key for Max Verstappen's F1 title hopes

Max Verstappen has won the last two grands prix and has thus closed the gap on the previously dominant McLaren drivers

Autosport

Why Singapore GP is key for Verstappen's F1 2025 title hopes

Max Verstappen has won the last two grands prix and has thus closed the gap on the previously dominant McLaren drivers

Motorsport

Winners and losers from F1's mixed-up Azerbaijan Grand Prix

An inevitable winner, a surprise podium finisher and an off-colour weekend for Formula 1's leading pair - a chaotic visit to Baku proved a weekend of opportunities, which some drivers let slip and others grabbed with both hands

The Independent UK

George Russell reveals he was close to pulling out of Azerbaijan GP after illness

The Mercedes driver was struggling with an infection throughout the weekend but finished second

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The Independent UK

Lando Norris reacts to missed opportunity in Azerbaijan: ‘I’m doing the best I can’

While title rival Oscar Piastri crashed out on lap one, Norris could only close the gap by six points

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Piastri crashes out in Baku to end calamitous weekend

Oscar Piastri has crashed out in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix won by Max Verstappen -- but Lando Norris failed to make his teammate pay, finishing only seventh.

Motorsport

Lando Norris on missed opportunity in Baku: "I don't really care how people look at it"

Lando Norris finished seventh in the Azerbaijan GP, meaning he only gained six points on title rival Oscar Piastri, who crashed out

Autosport

James Allen: Smooth operators tame Baku’s turbulent conditions

James Allen assesses the Azerbaijan GP, as McLaren's grip on the competitive order slipped and a slightly different cast of characters stepped up to excel

The Guardian - UK

Verstappen wins F1 Azerbaijan GP while Norris struggles after Piastri crash

Oscar Piastri, the title race leader, crashed out on the first lap in Baku but Lando Norris could finish only seventh as Max Verstappen led from pole to flag

Motorsport

F1 Azerbaijan GP: Five quick takeaways

Max Verstappen won in Baku ahead of George Russell and Carlos Sainz, as championship leader Oscar Piastri crashed out while title rival Lando Norris finished off the podium

The Guardian - UK

Verstappen wins in Azerbaijan after Piastri crashes out on bad day for McLaren: Formula One – as it happened

Max Verstappen won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and made ground on both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, with the latter crashing on the first lap

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