With the calendar set to flip to July, it’s a excellent time to test the standings.
The Components 1 Drivers’ Championship standings, that’s.
Kimi Antonelli stays within the lead forward of the British Grand Prix, due to a string of 5 consecutive wins, however teammate George Russell pulled inside 40 factors of the younger Mercedes driver due to Sunday’s win on the Austrian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton is lurking as nicely, within the wake of his first Grand Prix win for Ferrari, coming on the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix just a few weeks in the past.
Listed below are the 2026 F1 Drivers’ Championship standings following the Austrian Grand Prix.
2026 F1 Drivers’ Championship Standings
Listed below are the present F1 Drivers’ Championship standings, following the Austrian Grand Prix on June 28.
Place |
Driver |
Workforce |
Factors |
Greatest End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 171 | 1 |
| 2 | George Russell | Mercedes | 131 | 1 |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 125 | 1 |
| 4 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 80 | 2 |
| 5 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 79 | 2 |
| 6 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 79 | 3 |
| 7 | Max Verstappen | Crimson Bull | 73 | 2 |
| 8 | Isack Hadjar | Crimson Bull | 42 | 4 |
| 9 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 41 | 3 |
| 10 | Liam Lawson | VCARB | 30 | 6 |
| 11 | Oliver Bearman | Haas | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | Franco Colapinto | Alpine | 16 | 6 |
| 13 | Arvid Lindblad | VCARB | 14 | 7 |
| 14 | Carlos Sainz | Williams | 6 | 9 |
| 15 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 5 | 8 |
| 16 | Esteban Ocon | Haas | 3 | 9 |
| 17 | Gabriel Bortoleto | Audi | 2 | 9 |
| 18 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 1 | 10 |
| 19 | Nico Hulkenberg | Audi | 0 | 11 |
| 20 | Valtteri Bottas | Cadillac | 0 | 13 |
| 21 | Sergio Perez | Cadillac | 0 | 14 |
| 22 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 0 | 15 |
How does F1 scoring work?
Within the Grand Prix format, the highest ten finishers rating factors. The winner of the Grand Prix collects 25 factors, whereas the second-place finisher earns 18 and the third-place finisher earns 15.
Right here is the allocation for factors within the prime ten of a Grand Prix race:
P1: 25 factors
P2: 18 factors
P3: 15 factors
P4: 12 factors
P5: 10 factors
P6: 8 factors
P7: 6 factors
P8: 4 factors
P9: 2 factors
P10: 1 level
In an F1 Dash race, the highest eight finishers rating factors, beginning with eight factors for the winner, down to at least one level for the motive force ending eighth.
How do tiebreakers work in F1?
Tiebreakers within the F1 standings work on a “countback” system, taking a look at race outcomes. For instance, when there’s a tie on the prime of the standings, that’s damaged by counting the variety of Grand Prix wins. If, hypothetically, two drivers end the 12 months tied in factors atop the standings, the motive force with essentially the most Grand Prix wins would win the championship. If that quantity is identical, the motive force with essentially the most second-place finishes would win, working down the ending order till the tie is damaged.
This countback system got here into play final 12 months when Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri, and Lando Norris had been battling for the 2025 Drivers’ Championship. Heading into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, all three drivers had seven Grand Prix victories, so Norris’ eight second-place finishes — in comparison with 5 for Verstappen and 4 for Piastri — gave the eventual Drivers’ Champion a bonus on countback.
Trying on the standings this 12 months, our first tie includes Norris and Charles Leclerc, who each have 79 factors. Norris sits forward within the standings due to his second-place end on the Miami Grand Prix, whereas Leclerc’s greatest end is a P3.
We are able to additionally see the countback system on the backside of the standings. Nico Hülkenberg, Valtteri Bottas, Sergio Pérez, and Lance Stroll are the 4 drivers but to attain some extent this 12 months. Hülkenberg sits nineteenth within the standings due to a pair of P11 finishes (first in China after which in Japan). Bottas is subsequent, with a P13 from the Chinese language Grand Prix, adopted by Pérez, who completed 14th on the Spanish Grand Prix.
Stroll rounds out the sphere in P22, as his greatest end this 12 months was a P15 at his house race, the Canadian Grand Prix.
