McLaren, a British constructor, competed in the 1989 Formula 1 season with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna.
McLaren won the 1989 constructors' championship with 141 points, 10 wins and 18 podiums – 64 points ahead of Williams. McLaren won 10 Grands Prix, the last of them the Spanish Grand Prix, and scored 4 one-two finishes.
Final 1989 results after 16 rounds. Data: Jolpica F1 API.
Share of the team's points (race and sprint).
Race and sprint points per round, stacked by driver (Prost, Senna: darker to lighter).
Shared Grand Prix only. Qualifying uses the qualifying classification.
16 shared GPs
Both cars, every round. S = sprint result.
Short answers about McLaren in 1989.
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna drove for McLaren in the 1989 Formula 1 season.
McLaren scored 141 points in 1989 and finished 1st in the constructors' championship, 64 points ahead of Williams.
McLaren won 10 of 16 Grands Prix in 1989, with 18 podium finishes and 4 one-twos.
McLaren was founded by New Zealander Bruce McLaren and first raced in Formula 1 in 1966. It has won ten constructors’ championships and produced drivers’ champions from Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt through Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Mika Häkkinen to Lewis Hamilton in 2008. After a lean decade, the team won back-to-back constructors’ titles in 2024 and 2025, and Lando Norris took the 2025 drivers’ crown.
McLaren is based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking and uses Mercedes power units. Andrea Stella has been team principal since 2023. The 2026 drivers are reigning world champion Lando Norris, who carries the number 1, and Oscar Piastri.
| 1 |
| P2 |
| P11 |
6 |
| 2 | P2 | P1 | 15 |
| 3 | P2 | P1 | 15 |
| 4 | P5 | P1 | 11 |
| 5 | P1 | DNF | 9 |
| 6 | DNF | P7 | 0 |
| 7 | P1 | DNF | 9 |
| 8 | P1 | DNF | 9 |
| 9 | P2 | P1 | 15 |
| 10 | P4 | P2 | 9 |
| 11 | P2 | P1 | 15 |
| 12 | P1 | DNF | 9 |
| 13 | P2 | DNF | 6 |
| 14 | P3 | P1 | 13 |
| 15 | DNF | DSQ | 0 |
| 16 | DNS | DNF | 0 |