Credit : Formula 1's X
SAO PAULO, November 10, 2026 – McLaren have become the first team to reach 10 Grand Prix wins at Interlagos, Formula 1 said, after Lando Norris won the Sao Paulo Grand Prix on Sunday. The official Formula 1 X account marked the milestone on Tuesday, saying the team was “the first to reach 10 wins at the iconic Interlagos”.
An official graphic posted with the announcement listed the most team wins at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace. McLaren now have 10, ahead of Ferrari on nine, Red Bull Racing on seven, Mercedes on six and Williams on four.
Norris wins a wet Sao Paulo Grand Prix
The result itself was confirmed by Formula 1’s official results. Norris won Sunday’s 71-lap race in a time of 1:35:23.504 and took 25 points. Max Verstappen finished second, 14.602 seconds behind, with Isack Hadjar third, 24.485 seconds adrift of the winner, giving Red Bull a double podium.
George Russell and Kimi Antonelli finished fourth and fifth for Mercedes, according to the official classification. The constructors’ championship had already been the subject of a separate LNA report after Sunday’s race; the new point established by Formula 1 on Tuesday is McLaren’s record at the circuit.
Norris started from pole and won a race that began wet, dried out and was then hit by a late shower, Formula 1’s official race report said. He immediately lost the lead at the start to fellow front-row starter Kimi Antonelli and dropped another place to Liam Lawson through the opening corners, before recovering as Lawson’s intermediate tyres overheated. Norris then pitted a lap earlier than Antonelli for slick tyres, closed a seven-second gap and, shortly afterwards, forced the Mercedes driver into a spin at Turn 1, the official report said. Thereafter he controlled the pace and managed the late change back to intermediate tyres.
He claimed victory by 14.6 seconds for his third win of the 2026 season, and made it two successive pole-and-win combinations at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. The official Formula 1 account had earlier noted that he had “made it two pole-and-win combinations in a row in Sao Paulo”.
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella later described the afternoon as “technically a very interesting race”, saying the cooler conditions at Interlagos had helped the team keep tyre temperatures under control, according to Formula 1’s official website. “Today, somehow the conditions came our way, and we could keep the tyre temperature under control. I think that’s the main reason,” Stella said. Oscar Piastri finished seventh for the team.
The win was Norris’s second in succession at the same venue, following his victory at Interlagos in 2025, and his first since the Dutch Grand Prix in August, Formula 1 said. It also lifted McLaren clear of Ferrari in the circuit’s all-time team win list, on the figures published by Formula 1 on Tuesday.
The next rounds on Formula 1’s official calendar are the Las Vegas Grand Prix, from November 19 to 21, and the Qatar Grand Prix, from November 27 to 29.
Source: https://x.com/F1/status/2120175700447494379
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