{"id":60797,"date":"2025-08-11T06:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60797\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:14:04","slug":"mclaren-on-course-to-destroy-mercedes-f1-podium-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60797\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren on course to destroy Mercedes F1 podium record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren are on course to destroy the record for most podiums by a team in a single season, with 10 grands prix still remaining in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Woking-based outfit has dominated the 2025 F1 season, to the extent that McLaren already has a 299-point advantage in the constructors&#8217; championship over Ferrari.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A one-two in the drivers&#8217; title is also boasted by the British outfit, where Oscar Piastri has a narrow nine-point lead over Lando Norris. The next nearest driver is Max Verstappen, although the four-time world champion is a staggering 97 points adrift.<\/p>\n<p>From the 14 completed rounds, Piastri and Norris have both secured 12 podiums each, already putting McLaren on 24 rostrums for the season with 10 rounds remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite several rounds remaining, McLaren already sit 15th on the list for most podiums in one season. Mercedes&#8217; 33 podiums in the 2016 campaign is the benchmark, one McLaren looks set to comfortably beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just 10 podiums are needed between Piastri and Norris across the final rounds to eclipse Mercedes&#8217; record and steal the top spot, something it could achieve as soon as the United States Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes holds the top four spots, all from seasons during its period of complete dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the list for most podium finishes in one season below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren are on course to destroy the record for most podiums by a team in a single season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-60797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}