The Singapore Grand Prix marked a milestone moment for McLaren, the squad sealing the 10th Teams’ Championship of their long and storied history. Having so far achieved 12 wins, 28 podiums and a whopping 650 points in 2025, the Woking-based outfit wrapped up the title with six rounds of the campaign remaining.

It is doubtless an impressive feat – but how does this success compare to the team’s previous triumphant seasons? Well, we’ve taken a shot at ranking each of McLaren’s 10 Teams’ Championships, from their first in 1974 through to their latest.

As ever, this comes with the caveat that Formula 1 has undergone various changes – such as developments to the points-scoring system and the increased number races in a season – across the team’s title-winning campaigns, making comparisons tricky, but we have tried to balance statistics with sentiment in our list.

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While it feels unfair to rank any title triumph at the bottom, we start with the 1985 crown. Such has been the success that McLaren have experienced in their championship-winning seasons that this campaign – in which they took victory in six out of 16 races – features one of their lower winning percentages.

Arriving into the season off the back of title glory in 1984 (more on which later), 1985 brought with it increased competition as seven drivers – from five different teams – each won races.

The 1990 season marked a change in driver line-up for McLaren, with Gerhard Berger arriving to partner Ayrton Senna after tensions boiled over between the Brazilian and previous team mate Alain Prost (again, more to come on that).

Prost’s move to Ferrari saw his former team pick up fewer wins, with Senna leading the charge as he again went head-to-head with the Frenchman in the championship fight.

That battle ended in infamous style when the rivals controversially collided into the first corner at the Japanese Grand Prix, immediately putting both out of the race and handing Senna the Drivers’ crown in the process.

McLaren, meanwhile, took the Teams’ Championship with an 11-point margin from Ferrari.

The 1991 crown was a historic achievement for McLaren, marking the team’s fourth consecutive championship victory. This run of form was unbeaten for several years, with only Ferrari (six titles between 1999-2004) and Mercedes (eight titles between 2014-2021) bettering the record.

Statistically, McLaren’s 1974 triumph is another to feature a lower winning percentage, the squad having taken victory in four out of 15 races.

However, needless to say, this championship was an incredibly important one as it marked the first time that the team had experienced title glory since making their F1 debut back in 1966.

On paper, the 2024 championship features McLaren’s lowest percentage of race wins across their title-winning years. But, as ever, the numbers only tell part of the story, with this triumph proving hugely significant in the papaya squad’s history.

As previously mentioned, the 2024 success was McLaren’s first Teams’ crown in 26 years, with the last one prior to that also marking something of a comeback story.

Following their aforementioned 1991 victory, the squad were overhauled by Williams – and Benetton – in the seasons that followed. But a change to the technical regulations in 1998 was an opportunity that McLaren seized, with the MP4-13 proving the class of the field when the campaign got underway.

As we head towards the top end of our ranking, we now move into some of McLaren’s most dominant championship successes, seasons that also brought with them some truly iconic moments – and battles – along the way.

The 1989 season marked the second year in which Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna formed the team’s line-up, a formidable pairing that had (spoiler alert) already secured title glory during the 1988 campaign.

Arguably, the dominance of McLaren in this year’s Teams’ Championship could put this success even higher in our ranking. But given that the season is still playing out – and the Drivers’ crown is crucially yet to be decided – we have opted for the number 3 spot.

While the 2024 season saw the papaya squad slowly gain momentum, there was no such process this time around, with the team immediately quick out of the blocks at the start of the 2025 campaign.

McLaren did not trouble the top of the standings during the late 1970s, the squad going on to end the 1980 season down in ninth place. However, after joining the likes of Ferrari in switching to a turbocharged engine, their fortunes started to turn around into the ‘80s, culminating in a stunning 1984 campaign.

With Alain Prost returning to partner Niki Lauda – forming another one of the team’s strongest line-ups – the pair quickly became a dominant force at the wheel of the MP4/2, a car that brought them an incredible 12 victories in 16 races including a run of seven consecutive wins in the second half of the year.

It is hard to argue with the notion that the 1988 season marked McLaren’s greatest triumph, a campaign in which an all-star driver line-up – and a brewing rivalry between them – was paired with a benchmark-setting car to create magic.