With a third and fourth place, at the Singapore Grand Prix, McLaren have got over the line and can call themselves world champions again.
The Woking-based team, who headed into 2024 without a constructors’ championship title this century, now have two in a row.
Amid the expectation that this campaign would be closely fought, with this year being the last of the venturi-floor specific regulations, the Papaya team looked in control from the very first race, with Mercedes’ George Russell even mentioning that the MCL39 car was even stronger than what Max Verstappen enjoyed during his record-breaking 2023 season.
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Their Electric 2025
After looking like red-hot favourites during pre-season testing, in Bahrain, the Papaya team have not looked back and over the course of 18 races, have scored a mammoth 650 points, exactly double that of second-placed Mercedes’ tally.
Within that dominance, they have scored nine pole positions (five for Oscar Piastri and four for Lando Norris), 28 podium finishes (14 for both of their drivers) and 12 grand prix victories (7 for Piastri and five for Norris).
Not since 1988 have this team won as many races, having won 15 that year, and an extra grand prix success would move their 2025-win tally into outright-second in their all-time list.
They have also finished one and two in seven races, which is once more their best tally since 1988. However, they would need three more of those to parallel their team record which they set that year.
Additionally, they have clinched the constructors’ championship with still half a dozen race weekends left, which equals the trend that Red Bull set during their teams’ championship winning season, in 2023.
McLAREN ARE THE 2025 CONSTRUCTORS' CHAMPIONS! 👏
— Formula 1 (@F1) October 5, 2025
In a class of their own 👑#F1 pic.twitter.com/rHrd7jOmsK
Beyond 2025
Successfully defending their constructors’ title, for the first time since the days of Ayrton Senna and Gehard Berger in 1991, McLaren now join Red Bull as the team with the most constructors’ titles in this specific venturi-floor era of regulations, with a pair each.
It is also their tenth overall constructors’ title, second only to their fabled Ferrari rivals who have 16 of their own.
Since the beginning of last season, the Woking-based outfit have won 18 races. That is the exact number of races that they won during the 2010s decade.
For a team that looked in disaccord less than a decade back, and even started the 2023 season woefully, it has been a remarkable turnaround and an ascent that returns the McLaren name back to where it should be.
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