Talking Points From 2025 Mexican Grand Prix

The 2025 Mexican Grand Prix was a whirlwind, complicated, incident-marred and ultimately, dramatic race. The central point of the Grand Prix was the very fact that a McLaren driver emerged on the top step of the podium whose name wasn’t- and isn’t-Oscar Piastri. And while one doesn’t have to read a book exclusively titled “Happy Realisation”, the drivers’ title this year, may just also be about Lando Norris, since so many of us had so openly ridiculed the Briton, offered our disgust at the very idea of imagining him as being the worthy winner only to remain ecstatic about the wonderful and affable Australian.

However, that’s life. That is F1. And the rule of the game is to expect the unexpected. 

To have favourites is one thing and quite natural, so easily understood but to discount rationality and proceed with imagined narratives such as only my favourite driver will win the crown might not be the way things work.

Yes, Piastri is a talent and will definitely bounce back strongly from the disappointment of the Mexico contest in which he could only earn 10 points courtesy his fifth. But the sport doesn’t begin or end with the charming boy from Down Under; there may be others around who appear just as uppity in the end as the youngster being compared to a certain Kimi Matias Raikkonen.

No moral lecturing; just the author’s humble two cents?

That said, here are the 3 key talking points from the 2025 Mexican F1 Grand Prix:

Disappointment Thy Name is Lewis Hamilton’s Maiden Ferrari Season

What will indeed be hugely disappointing is the fact that a piece of statistic, utterly dour, stands the chance of coming true for such is the tectonic world of F1, isn’t it? 

All die-hard Lewis Hamilton or Ferrari fans may certainly have read up or been in the know of the fact that there hasn’t ever been a single F1 year yet where Hamilton hasn’t won a podium, if not a race win.

But hopes were high-and rightly so- for seeing a first podium in all-red when the great Driver scored a fighting P3 at the curtain raiser to the 2025 Mexican Grand Prix: the qualifying! 

However, come race day, Hamilton would slip away into an almost oblivion-like state after he failed to score a decent race start. 

Eventually, the seven-time world champion, the sport’s most successful driver in terms of points, and a giant across different generations of stars, rode back with a lowly P8.

From P3 to P8- what’s even happening? Can someone explain? Sir Lewis, how about you yourself?

Forza Ferrari, Thanks to Charles Leclerc 

If anything, the recently concluded 2025 Mexican Grand Prix served as a firm reminder about the powers of Charles Leclerc, the only Ferrari driver to have scored a podium this year. As a matter of factly, the famed Monegasque has scored 7 podiums at this point in time with another 4 races left to contest.

From the onset of the Singapore Grand Prix, wherein he would register a lukewarm result, Leclerc has scored podiums in 2 of his 3 recent Grands Prix events.

Prior to entering the twisty and complicated Mexican Grand Prix, the Ferrari driver slogged it out for a brilliant and interesting P3 at USA (COTA, held at Texas).

This time around, he’s improved with a second. Is a win on the cards? Anything can happen. This, after all, is F1 and the golden rule of thumb dictates- expect, the unexpected!

Lando Norris, New Drivers’ Championship Leader

Just when the ongoing 2025 world championship was leading to be a one way street, perceptibly becoming a touch boring given the nature of race outcomes, as seen recently (with Max bossing the remainder of the grid as if they were children), a Lando Norris triumph, like the one seen at Mexico City, just hours earlier, has made home fans in England smile, and Australian admirers of Piastri and his race craft quiver with doubt.

How? 

While surely another Lando Norris triumph doesn’t hurt anyone, barring his teammate, who had been leading the world championship before, the win at Mexico was a dominant display of the Briton’s race craft.

He’s been watched at all times, and obsessively so, by Mr. Zak Brown. And the gargantuan nature of the American supremo’s efforts to step up for his most favourite driver, notwithstanding, Norris’ own attempts at desperately swinging the points table into a position of ascendency for himself deserves appreciation.

While Oscar Piastri’s last race win came at the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix, circa August 31, 2025, Lando Norris’s commanding and maiden Mexico Grand Prix victory has meant that he’s the latest McLaren driver to win a race and the first since his teammate at Zandvoort to do so.

At this point in time, the gap between new championship leader Lando Norris and the quietly whining, but always sporting Oscar Piastri, is 1 point. That’s it. And there are still 3 more races to happen.

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