Bahrain glowed papaya orange in celebration of McLaren clinching the 2025 constructors’ championship on the Singapore Grand Prix.
McLaren turned unbeatable this season after Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri completed the race on the Marina Bay Road Circuit in third and fourth, respectively.
Bahrain’s Mumtalakat and Abu Dhabi’s CYVN Holdings took full possession of McLaren Racing in September 2025 after shopping for out US funding group MSP Sports activities Capital’s 33% share. On the time of MSP Capital’s funding 5 years in the past, McLaren Racing was valued at £560million and the newest transaction values the racing arm of the corporate at roughly £3.5billion.
“It is a terrific day for McLaren. It has been a tremendous quest to get again to the place we’re,” McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown instructed BBC Sport in September.
“It wasn’t way back our enterprise was extraordinarily challenged and we weren’t aggressive. So, 5 years later, this underlines the success F1 is having within the cost-cap period and has enabled us to be aggressive. It is nice to have McLaren again on the entrance once more and nice to have a simplified possession construction.”
With six grands prix and three dash races remaining within the 2025 season, McLaren has amassed an unassailable 650 factors. However whereas the Woking outfit has swiftly wrapped up the constructors’ title, the combat for the drivers’ championship is heating up between Piastri and Norris.
22 factors separate the 2 drivers after the Singapore Grand Prix and four-time champion Max Verstappen, who at the moment sits third, can’t be counted out of the battle but.
Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren
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“For the second 12 months in a row, McLaren are the constructors’ champions, an unbelievable feeling to finish a really aggressive weekend in Singapore!” workforce principal Andrea Stella defined after the race. “Final 12 months, it went all the best way to the ultimate lap of the ultimate race, so to have the ability to safe the title with six races to go within the 2025 season is an unbelievable effort from the whole workforce.
“Our race tempo was robust as we speak towards our closest rivals, though it was onerous to take benefit within the soiled air. Each Lando and Oscar demonstrated their distinctive expertise to safe an necessary consequence for the workforce, as we’ve seen on many events this season.
“Thanks to everybody within the workforce, each trackside and in Woking, for his or her unbelievable effort. We are able to all be very happy with this achievement, the primary back-to-back constructors’ championship for McLaren since 1991. Thanks to our PU provider HPP, our useful technical and industrial companions and naturally, our loyal papaya followers.
“It’s nice that our teamwork is rewarded like this, however we should benefit from the second this night after which flip our consideration to making ready for a aggressive problem within the last six races of the season.”
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