Lando Norris walked away unhurt from a chaotic podium celebration after winning the São Paulo Grand Prix on Sunday, when a smashed champagne bottle and an unexpected blast of fireworks turned his moment of triumph into a scare at Interlagos.

The McLaren driver had just beaten Red Bull's Max Verstappen by 14.6 seconds to win the rain-hit 71-lap race from pole position, his second consecutive victory in Brazil. But the celebrations went wrong as he attempted his trademark move of banging the champagne bottle against the podium floor to pop the cork, and the bottle broke in his hands. Moments later, he appeared to be caught by an unexpected blast from the fireworks going off around the podium.

Norris emerged unscathed from both incidents, and the drama did nothing to spoil a commanding drive in difficult conditions. The race began in the wet, dried out in the middle stint and turned wet again in the closing laps, yet the 26-year-old controlled the race from the front, leading for 47 of the 71 laps. Brazil football great Neymar waved the chequered flag as Norris crossed the line in one hour, 35 minutes and 23.5 seconds.

It was Norris's third win of the season, adding to his victories in Hungary and the Netherlands, and he is the 2025 Formula 1 world champion. Verstappen completed a remarkable recovery drive to finish second after starting from 21st on the grid, while his Red Bull team-mate Isack Hadjar completed the podium in third.

The day also settled the teams' championship. Mercedes clinched their ninth Formula 1 constructors' title, their first since 2021, after George Russell finished fourth and Kimi Antonelli fifth. Antonelli, who clinched the drivers' championship a week earlier in Mexico City at the age of 20, kept fifth place despite a five-second post-race penalty for an unsafe pit release.

Norris sits sixth in the drivers' standings, 33 points behind second-placed Verstappen, with Antonelli already confirmed as champion. The decisive moment of the race came when Norris pitted a lap earlier than Antonelli for slick tyres, wiping out a seven-second gap, and the Mercedes driver then spun at Turn 1 as the McLaren took control. Behind the leaders, Oscar Piastri completed the top six, while Nico Hulkenberg scored the final point of the race after a late pass on Arvid Lindblad, despite serving a 10-second penalty at his last stop. Lance Stroll retired from the race, and Valtteri Bottas failed to take the start after a wheel nut was cross-threaded on the grid.

Mercedes' title was sealed with points to spare. The team entered the weekend needing only three more points than Ferrari, and they now hold 652 points against Ferrari's 512 with three races remaining, meaning they cannot be caught. Formula 1 now takes a week off before the final triple-header of the season, starting with the Las Vegas Grand Prix on 19-21 November.