AUSTIN, Texas(AP) — Oscar Piastri likely can't leave Texas fast enough.

McLaren's Formula 1 championship leader certainly wasn't very fast Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas as teammate and title rival Lando Norris and Red Bull's Max Verstappen both took big bites out his points advantage at the United States Grand Prix.

Verstappen won for the third time in four races and Norris finished second. Piastri was a disappointing fifth.

What looked like a cruise control finish to his first career championship over the summer is now shaping up as a potential heart-pounding grind over the final five races of the season starting next weekend in Mexico City.

Piastri still leads Norris by 14 points and Verstappen by 40, but nothing feels comfortable any more.

“I’d still rather be where I a

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