At the Texas Grand Prix, Red Bull was slapped with a $90,000 fine after a crew member wandered back onto the grid to peel off McLaren's alignment tape. Mad Max still launched, led, and disappeared. Piastri still leads the title race, just, but the gap's shrinking faster than Tesla's profit margin.
Next stop: Mexico City — the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, 2240m above sea level. Mad Max has won here five times. If McLaren want to stop him turning the title into a one-man fiesta, they need to pin him in traffic early.