2025 Spanish Grand Prix – McLAREN Race Report "We couldn’t have ended the triple any better"
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Sunday, 1 June
Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Team Principal Andrea Stella, after the Spanish Grand Prix.
As it happened
• Oscar gets a clean start, Lando drops to P3 behind Verstappen
• Lando closes up to Verstappen and gets the pass for P2 done
• The cars behind, including Verstappen, begin to take their first pit stops
• Lando boxes for a set of Mediums, with Oscar doing the same one lap later
• The order shakes out with Oscar in P2 and Lando in P3, both behind Verstappen
• Verstappen boxes, moving Oscar and Lando up to P1 and P2
• Lando and Oscar both box for Softs
• On Lap 56, a Safety Car is deployed so Lando and Oscar pit for Softs again
• After the restart, Oscar retains P1 and Lando P2 until the Chequered Flag

Started | 1st |
Finished | 1st |
Fastest lap | 1m15.743s on Lap 61 (1st) |
Pit stops | 3, Lap 22 [Soft/Medium] (2.3s), Lap 49 [Medium/Soft] (3.3s) and Lap 55 [Soft/Soft] (3.9s) |
“I’m really happy to have won today. It was a great weekend overall. The pace was really good. We could turn it on when we needed to. It’s been a great year so far and this weekend’s been exactly the kind of weekend I was looking for. We executed everything we needed to when it counted and that’s all you can ask for. The team gave me a great car once again, and I’m very proud of the work we’ve done. There was a lot of support in the grandstands, so thanks to the crowd for being out there. We couldn’t have ended the triple header any better as a team.”

Started | 2nd |
Finished | 2nd |
Fastest lap | 1m16.187s on Lap 61 (+2.471s, 2nd) |
Pit stops | 3, Lap 21 [Soft/Medium] (2.9s), Lap 48 [Medium/Soft] (2.3s) and Lap 55 [Soft/Soft] (2.2s) |
“It was a good, fun race and for us to end this triple-header with a one-two is even better. Congrats to Oscar, he drove a very good race today. I didn’t quite have the pace to match him but we gave it our best shot. It’s a long race, and anything could have happened in the end. We were under pressure with the Safety Car restart, but we managed it really well and kept position. I’m happy to go back home with good points for the team.”

Celebrate in style!

“We end this European triple-header with a strong performance in Barcelona and further confirmation of the MCL39’s competitiveness. Throughout the weekend both drivers and the team were able to extract a very high level of performance from the car, which enabled us to secure this one-two today, our third of the season. The team executed the strategy and the pit stops well, making what could have been quite a tense race very smooth. We now head back to Woking to regroup and prepare before heading to Canada in two weeks' time.”
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