Where the season stands
After round 18, McLaren is 3rd in the 2026 Constructors' Championship with 353 points. The team is 121 points behind Ferrari, which is 2nd, and 14 points ahead of Red Bull Racing, which is 4th. The total of 353 points is made up of 299 in races and 54 in sprint races. McLaren scored points in 15 of the 18 races it entered.
How the results fell
Lando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix in round 11, where McLaren scored 25 race points and Oscar Piastri retired. Norris won the Dutch Grand Prix in round 12 as well, with Piastri 6th and McLaren on 33 race points. McLaren won 2 Grands Prix in the season so far, all with Norris, and had 7 podium finishes. Norris took pole position at the Hungarian, Dutch and Spanish Grands Prix. At the Miami Grand Prix in round 4, Norris finished 2nd and Piastri 3rd for 33 race points. McLaren did not take a 1-2 finish in the season so far.
McLaren scored 0 race points at the Chinese Grand Prix in round 2, where Norris and Piastri did not start. At the Canadian Grand Prix in round 5, Piastri finished 11th, 2 laps behind the winner, and Norris retired. At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in round 15, Piastri finished 13th and Norris retired. McLaren did not have both cars retire in the same race.
Within the team
Norris drove for McLaren at round 1 and rounds 3 to 18, while Piastri drove at rounds 3 to 18. At the Australian Grand Prix in round 1, Norris finished 5th and Piastri did not start. After round 18, Norris is 6th in the Drivers' Championship with 211 points, and Piastri is 7th with 142 points. Norris had 5 of the team's podium finishes and Piastri had 2.
At the Japanese Grand Prix in round 3, Piastri finished 2nd and Norris 5th. At the British Grand Prix in round 9, Norris finished 4th and Piastri 11th. At the Spanish Grand Prix in round 14, Norris finished 3rd and Piastri 8th. Both McLaren cars scored points in 11 of the 16 races in which the team ran two cars.
The career record
McLaren has entered 987 Grands Prix in a career that began in 1968, with 201 wins, 549 podium finishes and 80 pole positions. The team has won 10 Constructors' Championship titles and 13 Drivers' Championship titles.
Written by Pitbrain's AI from the official timing data and checked automatically against it. Key numbers are taken directly from the timing data.