FACTS AND STATS: Norris retakes title lead with McLaren’s first Mexico win since 1989

Lando Norris didn’t put a foot wrong in Mexico all weekend and the McLaren man’s reward is his name once more atop the championship table. His win generated plenty of fascinating figures, as did the thrilling race behind him around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Here’s our round-up of the numbers you need to know…

• Norris’ winning margin of 30.324 seconds was the biggest since Hungary 2023 when Max Verstappen won by 33.731 seconds.

• Norris retakes the championship lead 189 days after losing it at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

• It was McLaren’s first win in Mexico since 1989 with Ayrton Senna.

• It was Norris’ sixth win of the 2025 season, one behind team mate Oscar Piastri's seven.

• With P2 for Ferrari, Charles Leclerc achieved back-to-back podium finishes for the first time since Monaco and Spain.

• It was Leclerc’s third consecutive podium finish in Mexico City.

• Ferrari have now gone a full year without a Grand Prix victory.

• Leclerc is currently winless for the fourth time in seven seasons with Ferrari.

• Ferrari have regained second place in the Teams’ Championship standings from Mercedes.

• Verstappen’s P3 for Red Bull was his first podium finish in Mexico that was not a win (he has five victories here).

• It was Verstappen’s sixth consecutive podium finish this season (he only scored five podium finishes in his first 14 Grands Prix).

• Oliver Bearman’s P4 tied the Haas team’s best-ever result in their constructor history (Romain Grosjean at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix).

• Bearman had never previously completed a lap in the top six of a Grand Prix until this race.

• Haas had only completed 30 laps in a podium position in their entire constructor history.

• Bearman’s 2.3-second pit stop was Haas’ fastest of the 2025 season.

• Bearman gained five positions in the Drivers’ Championship today.

• P5 was Piastri’s best-ever finish in Mexico.

• Piastri lost his championship lead by one point.

• With P6, Kimi Antonelli beat his Mercedes team mate George Russell in a Grand prix for the first time this season.

• P7 was Russell’s worst Mexico result since joining Mercedes in 2022.

• Lewis Hamilton’s P8 for Ferrari was his worst Mexico finish since 2018.

• Esteban Ocon added to Haas’ points haul with P9 and the team move above Kick Sauber for eighth in the Teams’ Championship standings.

• Kick Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto finished in P10 for his fifth points finish of the season.

• Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso failed to finish in Mexico for the third consecutive year.

• Nico Hulkenberg’s DNF for Kick Sauber was his first official retirement of the season (he did not start in Italy and was disqualified in Bahrain).