Kimi Antonelli became Formula 1's youngest world champion at 20, sealing the title with third in Mexico while Max Verstappen won a race overshadowed by Ferrari's internal chaos. Charles Leclerc attacked polesitter Lewis Hamilton at Turn 4, braked late, and cut the entire second apex to hold the lead — drawing only a five-second penalty that enraged Hamilton, who believed the stewards gifted Leclerc clean air. They didn't. The penalty dropped Leclerc behind Verstappen at the stops, and a red flag reset everything. At the standing restart, Hamilton briefly challenged Verstappen with light contact, but Leclerc's massive lock-up in their wake destroyed his tyres and handed third to Antonelli. That was enough. Lando Norris's title defense ended in fifth, George Russell's bid fizzled with a Turn 1 deployment issue and a penalty, and Ferrari's intra-team friction now stares down a winter of reckoning with two drivers who no longer trust each other.
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