McLaren’s 2025 season is on course to become one of the most successful in Formula 1’s history – but just how decorated could it prove to be and what records are they on course to break in the nine races that remain from the Italian Grand Prix?

With a drivers’ and constructors’ championship double appearing in very little doubt amid Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris’ domination of the season, we take a look at some of the team’s potential dates with history between now and December’s season finale in Abu Dhabi.

How soon could McLaren clinch constructors’ title?

It has been a matter of when, and not if, McLaren will retain the Constructors’ Championship they won for the first time in 26 years last year from very early on in this F1 season.

Twelve grand prix wins and seven one-twos across the season’s first 15 races have made it all-but certain that McLaren will claim what will be their landmark 10th constructors’ crown far earlier than 2024, when they only finally saw off Ferrari at the Abu Dhabi season finale.

Piastri and Norris’ relentless podium finishing saw them open up a mammoth 324-point lead over second-placed Ferrari after the Dutch Grand Prix, despite the Briton’s cruel race retirement at Zandvoort.

Constructors’ Championship: Top 4

Team
Points
Gap

1) McLaren
584

2) Ferrari
260
+324

3) Mercedes
248
+336

4) Red Bull
214
+370

So how soon can they wrap things up this time?

Well, there are a maximum of 432 points left up for grabs for a team across the final nine grand prix weekends – including the three sprints.

The earliest they could mathematically retain the constructors’ crown is at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, on September 21.

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Watch how McLaren’s close title fight unfolded in numbers up to the summer break

To become champions again in Baku they would have to be 346 points ahead of the second-placed team – so 22 more than now – by the end of that grand prix weekend.

And such a lead is certainly conceivable given that formidable McLaren increased their constructors’ lead by an average of 29 points over the last three non-sprint weekends.

While there is an array of permutations, two one-two finishes irrespective of what their rivals do in the next two races would emphatically guarantee a Baku coronation.

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Watch from Oscar Piastri’s 360-degree onboard camera as he attempts to claim victory from Lando Norris in the last two laps of the Hungarian Grand Prix

Were their rate of gains to slow then they would appear certain to clinch the title a fortnight later in Singapore given they would only require to finish that race with a 303-point lead – 21 points fewer than the total they currently lead by.

On current form it appears remote that the constructors’ title ‘race’ will go on to the USA-Mexico double-header at the end of October.

What records could McLaren break?

Constructors’ champions with most races left

Record – 6 (Red Bull, 2023)

Were McLaren to indeed wrap things up as early as Baku, the season’s 17th round, then they would become the first team to be constructors’ champions with as many as seven race weekends remaining in the season.

Red Bull set a new record of six grands prix remaining when they won the title in 2023.

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Watch the last lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix as Norris and Piastri battled it out for the top spot

Most points in a season

Record – 860 (Red Bull, 2023); McLaren’s current total – 584

First, it is worth pointing out the many caveats that come with points records in F1.

The steady addition of more grands prix – plus latterly the advent of points-paying sprints – to the calendar and changes to the sport’s scoring system (the last fundamental overhaul of which came in 2010) mean comparing driver or team records from across history is nowhere near like-for-like.

Still, the respective records are still there in the history books and therefore there to be broken, and McLaren could beat Red Bull’s mark of 860 points in a season set as recently as 2023 when they won all but one of that year’s 22 grands prix.

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Norris was heartbroken as his title hopes were dealt a huge blow following retirement from the Dutch Grand Prix

Red Bull’s average points per race across those 22 rounds was 39.09, McLaren’s average across the first 15 of this year is 38.9. Were they to sustain that, then they would clear the 900-point barrier for the first time.

Largest constructors’ winning margin

Record – 451 points (Red Bull, 2023); McLaren’s current lead – 324 points

Another record that McLaren can take away from Red Bull, aided by there being two more grands prix than two years ago. Given the way the Woking team have relentlessly raced away at the top of the standings this year with two front-running drivers, this is another feasible achievement.

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Brad Pitt, the lead actor from F1: The Movie, goes for a spin in the McLaren 750S with Norris and Martin Brundle

Most podiums in a season

Record – 33 (Mercedes, 2016); McLaren’s current total – 25

This is a record that certainly should go given there are 18 podiums still up for grabs for a McLaren car this season and the team only need nine more to surpass Mercedes’ 2016 total, when the season ran to 21 rounds.

Norris and Piastri have between them only failed to finish on the podium three times all season so far, while Canada was the only race neither made the top three.

Most fastest laps in a season

Record – 14 (Ferrari, 2004); McLaren’s current total – 10

Fastest race laps no longer carry a bonus point, so their significance has lessened, but with 67 per cent of them going to one of the two papaya cars so far this season McLaren have a chance of getting five more in this campaign to set a new marker.

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Norris claims his first home win at Silverstone, beating McLaren team-mate Piastri

Most McLaren wins in a season

Record – 15 (1988, from 16 races), McLaren’s current total – 12

While they will of course not beat the near-perfect percentage from 1988, McLaren should record more wins than they ever have in a single campaign this year.

They would have to win all nine remaining races to match Red Bull’s overall F1 record of 21 from 2023, however.

The 2025 Formula 1 season continues this weekend with the Italian Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton makes his first appearance at Monza for Ferrari, live on Sky Sports F1. Stream Sky Sports with NOW – no contract, cancel anytime