AUSTIN, Texas :McLaren boss Andrea Stella said the Formula One drivers' championship was still in his team's hands despite a dominant U.S. Grand Prix weekend for Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

McLaren have already clinched the constructors' title for a second successive year and have Australian Oscar Piastri leading the drivers' standings by 14 points from British teammate Lando Norris.

The Woking team last won the drivers' crown with Lewis Hamilton in 2008 and have not completed a championship double since 1998.

Verstappen, chasing a fifth title in a row, is 40 points off the lead but has slashed the gap from 104 at the end of August with three wins in the last four races. There are five rounds remaining.

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