Max Verstappen admitted the "chance is there" for him to now win this year's Formula 1 world championship after his once-unlikely title comeback was turbocharged by a perfect weekend at the United States Grand Prix.

Verstappen followed up Saturday's win in the Austin Sprint - the mini race in which his McLaren rivals crashed out at the first corner - with a comfortable victory over Lando Norris in the full-length Grand Prix for his third Sunday win in the last four races.

As championship leader Oscar Piastri struggled to a distant fifth-place finish, Verstappen's maximum points haul from the Circuit of The Americas meant he took a massive 23 points out of the Australian's title lead overall to move within 40 points of the summit.

Verstappen had been 104 points behind and seemingly well

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