Five championships ran on Sunday 13 September. One title was clinched, one changed hands for the first time this season, one was decided outright, and the biggest of them was settled by how quickly marshals could push a broken Aston Martin through a gap in a barrier.

Madrid: the neutralisation arrived while Norris was past the pit entry

Kimi Antonelli won the first Spanish Grand Prix held at the Madring in 1:34:23.754, with Max Verstappen at 4.351s and Lando Norris at 5.089s behind him. Charles Leclerc took fourth at 29.116s and George Russell fifth at 29.829s, so fourth and fifth finished nearly half a minute behind a podium covered by five seconds.

Lance Stroll's retirement is what rearranged the order. Formula 1's own race-day round-up records that Stroll "caused the pivotal Virtual Safety Car when he parked up in the run off area with a car problem", and that because he reached a gap in the barriers the marshals cleared the car quickly. Norris had already gone past the pit lane entry when the call came, and the window shut before he came back around.

"I was the only driver on the whole grid who didn't get a pit stop under the VSC, and I lost around twenty seconds of race time because of it," Norris said. Andrea Stella put McLaren's loss on the same cause, saying the timing of the Virtual Safety Car "meant the win was taken from us". Antonelli did not argue: he said Mercedes "were a little bit fortunate with the timing", took "the cheap stop onto the Hard", and added that "we probably didn't deserve to win therefore but we will of course take it".

The FIA's championship points document for the Spanish Grand Prix, issued on the evening of 13 September, puts Antonelli on 292, Russell 211, Lewis Hamilton 191, Norris 186, Leclerc 167, Verstappen 145 and Oscar Piastri 120, and prints its own caveat under the table: the points are subject to a notice of intention to appeal by Audi against a stewards' decision from the Italian Grand Prix, a Monza matter that sits on a Madrid table. The constructors' table, read on 14 September, gives Mercedes 503, Ferrari 358 and McLaren 306, so Ferrari carries a 52-point buffer over the team that was quickest on Sunday, and each team's pair of drivers sums to its total exactly. Formula 1's own drivers' page was still showing the pre-Madrid table when it was read the same morning, which is why the drivers' figures here come from the FIA document rather than from it.

Misano: 274 plays 274

Marc Marquez leads the MotoGP championship for the first time this season, and both of the afternoon's big losses were Aprilia's. Marco Bezzecchi crashed out of the lead at Turn 13 on the opening lap. Jorge Martin then took the lead himself on lap 7 at Turn 4, lost it back to Marquez at Turn 6 on lap 12, and finished fifth after Alex Marquez, Pedro Acosta and Fermin Aldeguer all came past.

Dorna's own report closes on the arithmetic: "274 points plays 274 points between Marc Marquez and Martin, with Bezzecchi 33 points off the lead in third". It opens on the distance covered, "102 points behind seven rounds ago", and the win was Marquez's 78th in the class. He had also won Saturday's Sprint, with Bezzecchi second and Martin third. Acosta's third place on Sunday was his fifth podium of the campaign.

Aprilia's two riders scored 11 points between them in Sunday's Grand Prix, all of them Martin's, and he had arrived at Misano leading the championship by 19 points. The championship goes to the Red Bull Ring on 20 September with the top two level on points.

Chile: Toyota equals Lancia, and Evans stops for a wheel

Oliver Solberg and Elliott Edmondson led Rally Chile Bio Bio from the opening stage and won by 16.6sec from Sebastien Ogier, with Adrien Fourmaux third at 33.3sec. Ogier's second place was his 120th WRC podium, which draws him level with Sebastien Loeb.

Toyota clinched the manufacturers' championship with two rounds still to run. The title is the marque's "sixth successive manufacturers' championship, extending an unbeaten run dating back to 2021, and its 10th overall", a total that ties Lancia at the top of the sport's all-time list and matches the run of six straight that Lancia set between 1987 and 1992.

Elfyn Evans was running second when he stopped to change a wheel on the penultimate Carampangue stage. More than two minutes went, and he fell to fifth. WRC states the consequence from the chasing side, Solberg's win having "brought him to within 21 points of the championship lead, with Pajari just four points ahead", and the FIA's event review of 14 September states it from Evans's: his lead over Sami Pajari is down to 17 points, with Solberg 21 behind. To take the title at Rally Italia Sardegna in October rather than at the Saudi Arabian finale, Evans needs to leave the penultimate round at least 36 points clear of every rival.

Madrid, the other two paddocks

Ugo Ugochukwu finished second in the last race of the FIA Formula 3 season and took the title on 159 points to Freddie Slater's 145, having started the day level with him on 141. F3 calls him "the first F3 Champion from the United States". Tuukka Taponen led every lap from pole for his maiden win in the category and lifted himself to third overall, and Campos Racing finished the year as teams' champions on 334 points.

Formula 2 goes to Baku from 24 to 26 September with seven points in it. Dino Beganovic led every lap from pole and won by 7.3s from Alexander Dunne, winning for the first time this season. Rafael Camara was given a 10-second time penalty for causing a collision with Oliver Goethe on lap 18, which dropped him to tenth, and he sits seven points behind Nikola Tsolov's 177.