Mercedes Have Won the Constructors’ Championship for a 9th Time, the First since 2021

Mercedes have won the Constructors’ Championship for a 9th time, the first occasion since 2021. The title was secured at Interlagos on November 8 with George Russell and Kimi Antonelli finishing 4th and 5th. It is the first time this season that neither driver made the podium when the championship was clinched. Three rounds remain but the 3 points needed were already in the bag.

On paper there is no contest. Mercedes end the Brazilian weekend with 652 points against Ferrari’s 510, an insurmountable 142 point advantage with what is left of the races. McLaren and Red Bull are in it for 3rd; after both put 33 up in Brazil they are separated by 17.

This makes nine constructors’ crowns for the team and their first since 2021, ending a run of eight years from 2014. At five seasons it is the longest period without the trophy since Mercedes returned to Formula 1 as a works team in 2010. The win also ties them with Williams on 9, making them third all time behind Ferrari and McLaren.

Toto Wolff described it as amazing and noted that not many teams recover from where his had been. More to the point he has already said the battle for 2027 is under way.

It completes a double. Antonelli took the drivers’ championship in Mexico City a week earlier at 20 years and 68 days, the youngest champion in the history of the sport, in his second season with the team.