Antonelli seemed to have taken management of the race as he cycled from third on the preliminary grid to the lead after two standing begins punctuated by a protracted delay due to Verstappen’s crash.
The Italian handed Russell for second behind pole-sitter Norris at the primary begin because the Briton was slowed by the within of the grid being damper than the skin after a bathe of rain.
But the race was stopped after Verstappen had an almighty accident at the tip of the primary lap.
Running too low by way of the flat-out final nook, Verstappen’s inside wheels caught the moist painted line and he misplaced the rear, sending him nostril first into the skin wall.
Behind him, Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto additionally misplaced management, however someway he spun whereas staying on the observe and was in a position to resume.
Verstappen was unharmed and climbed out with no issues as the sphere reformed within the pits whereas the observe was cleared.
At the restart, the observe now dry after a interval of sunshine, Antonelli acquired the leap on Norris and moved into the lead.
Given his dominance at instances this yr, and the comfy victory Russell had taken over Norris within the dash on Saturday, that appeared to place the championship chief accountable for the race.
The pair made their first pit stops collectively on lap 21, resuming in second and third place behind Hamilton, who delayed his cease by an extra 4 laps.
But within the second stint, Norris got here into his personal. He closed in on Antonelli initially, and held the hole to inside two seconds by the point the Mercedes driver made his second pit cease on lap 40.
This was Norris’ probability. McLaren waited an extra seven laps to make his cease and he rejoined solely 4.8 seconds behind Antonelli.
The pair closed collectively on Hamilton, on his personal off-set technique, and the three had been operating nostril to tail by lap 52. Two laps later, Antonelli feinted a transfer down the within of Hamilton, nevertheless it did not come off, and it left an area for Norris to depart his braking as late as potential on the clear exterior line.
From there, he sailed across the exterior of the Mercedes across the lengthy, banked first nook, generally known as Tarzan, and set off after the Ferrari.
An error by Hamilton by way of Turn 10 later across the lap gave Norris a run out of the nook, and he drove previous the Ferrari on the skin line into the chicane that adopted.
That was the race received by Norris, even when there was a little bit of jeopardy as McLaren selected to not pit beneath the VSC whereas all these bar Russell behind him did, however in the long run he had greater than sufficient in hand.