Piastri becomes only the third McLaren driver to record eight successive podiums, Hulkenberg records Sauber’s best result in over three years and Verstappen finishes off the podium in Spain for the first time since 2017. Here are the facts and statistics from the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix!
PIASTRI WINS THE 2025 SPANISH GRAND PRIX
Oscar Piastri won the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, taking the seventh victory of his Formula 1 career. Piastri became the 43rd driver to score as many as seven wins in F1, tying with the career totals of Rene Arnoux and Juan Pablo Montoya.
This was McLaren’s first Spanish Grand Prix win since Kimi Raikkonen’s 2005 victory.
Piastri recorded the 50th victory for an Australian driver in Formula 1. Australia is the seventh nation to record as many as 50 Grand Prix wins.
Piastri finished on the podium for an eighth consecutive race, becoming only the third McLaren driver – after Ayrton Senna in 1988 and Lewis Hamilton in 2007 – to finish on the podium at eight races in a row.
This was Piastri’s first top six finish at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Piastri set the fastest lap of the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix and set a new Lap Record in doing so, bettering Max Verstappen’s former 2023 record by 0.587 seconds.
This was Piastri’s 27th consecutive points-scoring race, equalling Kimi Raikkonen for fifth on the list of most consecutive points finishes in Formula 1.
Mercedes became the first engine manufacturer to power 13 Spanish Grand Prix victories in Formula 1 history, overtaking Ferrari at the top of the list.
Piastri leads the Drivers’ Championship for the fifth race in a row. This is the first time an Australian driver has led the title race after five consecutive races since Alan Jones did so between the 1980 Canadian Grand Prix and the 1981 Brazilian Grand Prix
ON THE PODIUM
Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc joined Oscar Piastri on the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix podium. This was the first time since 2008 that the Spanish Grand Prix podium was made up entirely of McLaren and Ferrari drivers.
This was the first time since 2011 that both McLaren drivers finished on the podium at the Spanish Grand Prix, as well as the team’s first 1-2 finish at the event since 2000.
Lando Norris finished on the podium for the 34th time in his career, moving ahead of Denny Hulme and Jody Scheckter and into the top 30 most frequent podium finishers in Formula 1.
Norris finished in the top two for a fourth consecutive race and finished as runner-up at the Spanish Grand Prix for the second year in a row.
Charles Leclerc recorded his third podium finish of the season. This was the first time he finished on the podium at consecutive races since the last two races of 2024.
This was Leclerc’s first podium finish at the Spanish Grand Prix, as well as the first podium finish for a Ferrari driver at Catalunya since 2017.
This was the first podium finish for the driver starting seventh at the Spanish Grand Prix since David Coulthard finished third in 2002.
IN THE POINTS
George Russell’s fourth place finish made the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix the 300th Grand Prix in which Mercedes scored a point.
This was Russell’s first top five result since his podium finish in Miami.
With Russell fourth and Kimi Antonelli failing to finish, this was the first time since 2016 that neither Mercedes driver finished on the podium.
Nico Hulkenberg finished fifth in the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix. This was the first top five finish for the Sauber team since Valtteri Bottas finished fifth, under Alfa Romeo branding, at the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
This was Hulkenberg’s first top five finish since the 2019 Italian Grand Prix, where he also finished fifth.
Hulkenberg gained ten places from where he started for the second time this year, having also done so at the Australian Grand Prix.
This was Hulkenberg’s best-ever Spanish Grand Prix result and the first time since 2017 that he scored points at the event.
This was the third time in the last four years that the Sauber team scored points at the Spanish Grand Prix. It was the team’s first top five result at Catalunya since Kamui Kobayashi finished fifth in 2012.
Lewis Hamilton finished sixth in the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, finishing in a worse position than where he started for the first time since the Australian Grand Prix.
This was the first time since his first lap retirement in 2016 that Hamilton did not finish in the top five at the Spanish Grand Prix.
With seventh place, Isack Hadjar scored points for a third consecutive race – and did so for the fifth time in the last seven races.
Hadjar’s seventh place was the Red Bull junior team’s first top seven result at the Spanish Grand Prix since 2017.
Pierre Gasly finished a Grand Prix in the points for the second time this year, finishing eighth in the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix.
This was the sixth time in his last seven Spanish Grand Prix appearances that Gasly scored points. Eighth is his second-best result to date at Catalunya.
Finishing ninth, Fernando Alonso scored his first points of the 2025 season. He became the first driver to score points in as many as 21 different seasons. This was his first points finish since the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Following a post race penalty, Max Verstappen finished tenth in the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix. Of races he has finished, this was the first time Verstappen finished outside of the top six since the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix and his first finish outside of the top eight since the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Verstappen led six laps in the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, making this the 100th Grand Prix in which he led a lap. He is the fourth driver, after Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, to have led laps in as many as 100 Grands Prix.
Verstappen crossed the finish line for a 30th consecutive race, making this the ninth time a driver has crossed the line at 30 races in a row. He also scored points for a 30th consecutive race. Only Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton have achieved the feat before and both drivers have now done so twice.
This was the first time since 2017 that Verstappen did not finish on the Spanish Grand Prix podium.
With Verstappen tenth and Yuki Tsunoda 13th, this was the first Spanish Grand Prix since 2015 in which no Red Bull drivers finished on the podium. It was also the first time since 2006 that neither Red Bull driver finished in the top nine.
THE OTHER FINISHERS
With 12th place in the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, Gabriel Bortoleto recorded the best result of his Formula 1 career to date. His previous best was 14th, at the Chinese and Monaco Grands Prix. The result moved him ahead of both Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto in the Drivers’ Championship.
Yuki Tsunoda failed to score points for the fourth time in his five Spanish Grand Prix appearances.
Finishing 14th, Carlos Sainz failed to score a point in the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix. This was the first time in his 11 appearances at his home Grand Prix that Sainz failed to score a point.
This was the first time since his retirement from the Bahrain Grand Prix that Sainz failed to score a point.
Although Williams failed to score a point for only the second time this year, Williams became the first team to have completed 4,000 laps in total at Catalunya during the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix.
Finishing 16th, Esteban Ocon failed to score a point at the Spanish Grand Prix for the first time since 2020.
Of races that he has finished, this was the first time in his Formula 1 career that Ollie Bearman finished in a worse position than where he started.
This was the sixth consecutive season in which Haas failed to score a point at the Spanish Grand Prix.
THE RETIREES
Alex Albon was the first driver to retire from the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix. His retirement made this the first race at Catalunya since 2022 from which a driver retired.
This was Albon’s first retirement since the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
This was Albon’s first-ever non-finish at the Spanish Grand Prix, as well as the first retirement for a Williams driver at Catalunya since Bruno Senna failed to finish in 2012.
Kimi Antonelli was the second driver to retire from the race, coming to a stop and bringing out the Safety Car late on. This was the first Safety Car deployment at the Spanish Grand Prix since 2021.
This was the third consecutive race in which Antonelli failed to score and his second retirement in the last three Grands Prix.
Lance Stroll did not start the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix due to a hand injury. This was the first race that he did not start since spinning out on the formation lap at the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix and the first time that he withdrew between qualifying and the race since his Saturday crash at the 2023 Singapore Grand Prix.
