Lando Norris won a rain-hit Sao Paulo Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday, beating Max Verstappen by 14.6 seconds as Mercedes clinched the 2026 Formula 1 constructors' championship at Interlagos.

The McLaren driver led 47 of the 71 laps in a race that began wet, dried out and then turned wet again in the closing stages. It was Norris's third win of the season, his second consecutive victory in Brazil and the 14th win of his Formula 1 career.

Verstappen finished second for Red Bull after starting from 21st on the grid, while his team-mate Isack Hadjar completed the podium in third. The result gave Red Bull a double podium on a day when the Dutchman was voted driver of the day by fans.

Norris controls a chaotic race

Norris started from pole for the second year in a row in Sao Paulo, but he did not have the race to himself. Kimi Antonelli led in the early going after getting ahead of the 2025 world champion at the start, before the Mercedes driver struggled for grip on his first set of soft tyres and spun at Turn 1 while leading.

Norris pitted a lap earlier than Antonelli for slick tyres, cutting a seven-second gap in the process, and then controlled the pace at the front as the track dried. A late rain shower in the final nine laps forced a switch back to intermediate tyres, but the McLaren driver held his nerve to take the chequered flag, waved by Brazil footballer Neymar.

The win was McLaren's first since Norris won the Dutch Grand Prix in August, and it was also the 50th podium of his career.

Mercedes seal the constructors' title

George Russell finished fourth and Antonelli fifth, and those results were enough to secure Mercedes' ninth constructors' championship — the team's first since 2021. Mercedes now have 652 points and cannot be caught by Ferrari with three races remaining.

The title completes a double for Mercedes, coming a week after 20-year-old Antonelli became the youngest drivers' champion in Formula 1 history with four races to spare in Mexico City. Team principal Toto Wolff has now matched Sir Frank Williams' record of nine constructors' titles as a team boss.

Antonelli kept fifth place despite a five-second penalty after the race for an unsafe pit release at his final stop, with the penalty not affecting Mercedes' title.

Hamilton reaches 400 starts

Lewis Hamilton became only the second driver in Formula 1 history to reach 400 grand prix starts, after Fernando Alonso. The Ferrari driver started from the back of the grid after changes to his car and finished ninth, while his team-mate Charles Leclerc was also unable to challenge at the front.

Oscar Piastri completed the top six for McLaren. Formula 1 now heads to the United States for the Las Vegas Grand Prix on the weekend of 20-22 November, with the final two races of the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi still to come. Formula 1 reported Norris's win and Mercedes' title, and the Associated Press covered the wet race at Interlagos.