Six races into the 2026 season, the F1 championship standings are dominated by one story: Andrea Kimi Antonelli. The Italian teenager has converted five of those first six rounds into victories, opening a commanding lead in the Drivers’ Championship. Behind him, the order has been turned upside down by Monaco — Lewis Hamilton has surged into second after back-to-back Ferrari podiums, while Mercedes team-mate George Russell’s penalty-strewn weekend in Monte Carlo dropped him to third. Defending champion Lando Norris is sixth, and Max Verstappen — the man almost everyone tipped to challenge Antonelli — sits well outside the top group after another retirement.

The 2026 F1 Drivers’ Championship podium right now

P2

Lewis Hamilton

Ferrari

90 PTS

+66 to leader

P1

Kimi Antonelli

Mercedes · 5 wins

156 PTS

CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER

P3

George Russell

Mercedes

88 PTS

+68 to leader

F1 Driver Standings 2026 — Top 10

F1 Constructor Standings 2026 — Full Grid

The Formula 1 constructor standings tell an even more emphatic version of the same story. Mercedes have won every single one of the first six races and pulled clear of Ferrari at the top, with McLaren — last year’s dominant champion — dropping to a distant third. The bottom of the grid features the most fascinating subplot of the year: Cadillac, the championship’s 11th team, scored what looked like their first ever F1 point in Monaco before Sergio Pérez was demoted by a post-race penalty.

For the full picture of who’s racing under each banner, our complete 2026 F1 teams list covers every line-up, engine partner and chassis number. The full 2026 F1 driver line-up is here too, including the rookies and the seat changes that reshaped this year’s grid.

The current F1 points system rewards the top ten finishers in a standard Grand Prix. Win and you collect 25 points; second is 18, third is 15, then 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 down to tenth. There’s also one bonus point for the fastest lap of the race — but only if that driver finishes inside the top ten, a rule introduced to stop backmarkers from pitting late for fresh tyres and stealing the point. For the full breakdown see our deep-dive on the F1 points system and our broader guide to how racing championships are scored.

F1 Points Table — Race & Sprint

How to calculate F1 standings

Calculating the F1 championship standings is straightforward once you know the points table. Add a driver’s Grand Prix points to any sprint points and the fastest-lap bonus, then carry that total forward across every round. Penalties complicate things — if a driver is hit with a time penalty that drops them out of the points, those points transfer to the drivers who promote up the order. Stewards can also dock championship points directly for severe technical breaches.

The 2025 Formula 1 standings closed one of the closest title fights in years. Lando Norris won his maiden World Championship by just two points over four-time champion Max Verstappen, with the title decided at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen actually won the race; Norris finished third, which was enough to clinch it. Oscar Piastri completed the top three after an extraordinary first half of the season in which he led the championship for fifteen rounds before fading at the run-in.

Final 2025 F1 Drivers’ Championship — Top 5

Constructors’ Champion 2025: McLaren-Mercedes, clinching the title with several rounds to spare — their first Constructors’ Championship in over a quarter-century. Mercedes finished a distant second; Ferrari was third.

F1 Standings 2024 — Verstappen’s Fourth, McLaren’s Charge

The 2024 Formula 1 standings told the story of a season that started one way and ended another. Max Verstappen took his fourth consecutive Drivers’ Championship with 437 points, but the margin was nothing like 2023. Lando Norris closed brilliantly to finish second on 374 points, and McLaren overhauled Red Bull in the Constructors’ table — a flip of the order that turned out to be a preview of 2025.

F1 Standings 2023 — Verstappen’s Record-Breaking Year

The 2023 Formula 1 standings reflected the most dominant single season in the sport’s history. Max Verstappen scored 575 points, won 19 of 22 races and recorded 21 podiums — every one of those numbers a record. Red Bull Racing won 21 of the 22 Grands Prix held, a 95.45% strike rate no team had ever matched.

F1 Standings 2022 — A New Era and a New Order

2022 marked the start of the ground-effect era, with completely new cars designed around a return to under-floor aerodynamics. Ferrari started strongly with Charles Leclerc but Red Bull out-developed the field across the summer, allowing Verstappen to comfortably retain his title. Mercedes — eight constructors’ titles in a row — slipped to third, the first sign their dynasty was over.

F1 Standings 2021 — The Closest Title Fight in Modern History

The 2021 Formula 1 standings belong to the most controversial title decider in living memory. Verstappen and Hamilton entered the Abu Dhabi finale tied on points. A late safety car, a contested call from race control and a single last-lap overtake settled the title in Verstappen’s favour — and triggered a year of fallout for the FIA.

F1 Standings 2020 — Hamilton Equals Schumacher

The pandemic-shortened 2020 Formula 1 standings cemented Lewis Hamilton’s place in the greatest-of-all-time conversation. He took his seventh title in a heavily compressed seventeen-race calendar and matched Michael Schumacher’s all-time championship record. Mercedes claimed their seventh consecutive Constructors’ title — the high-water mark of one of the sport’s great dynasties.

F1 Champions by Year (2020–2026)

The opening third of 2026 has been shaped by three forces colliding at once: the biggest technical rules reset in a decade, a generational changing of the guard, and a string of reliability problems for the teams who got 2025 right. The new power units — split roughly 50/50 between combustion and electric, running on fully sustainable fuel — have shuffled the order. Mercedes nailed the integration. Red Bull, running their own Ford-badged power unit for the first time, are still finding their feet. Ferrari built a car that suits Hamilton in a way last year’s didn’t. And McLaren, last year’s runaway champion, has dropped to third in the constructors’ fight.

Championship gap visualised — Top 3 after Monaco

Antonelli: a 19-year-old championship leader

Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s name has dominated every Formula 1 championship leader headline since Australia. The Italian, in only his second F1 season, has converted five of the first six races into wins — including a faultless drive through the Monaco chaos that featured a red flag, two late safety cars and multiple retirements. Whether his run is the foundation of a championship or a hot streak that gets clawed back, the answer arrives over the next few months. The 2026 F1 schedule still has eighteen rounds to play out.

Hamilton, Ferrari and the comeback nobody predicted

After a brutal first year at Ferrari in 2025, Lewis Hamilton’s start to 2026 has been a quiet statement. Back-to-back podiums in Spain and Monaco moved him into second in the standings ahead of his Mercedes successor George Russell, with Charles Leclerc behind. At 41, the seven-time champion has a real argument to make about his eighth title — particularly if Mercedes’ early-season reliability ever blinks.

Verstappen’s worst start in a decade

The four-time champion has had a season unlike anything in his Red Bull career. A first-lap power-unit failure in Monaco was the latest in a run of reliability and balance problems that have left him fighting for points he used to count automatically. For context on how dramatic the fall is: in 2023 he won 19 of 22 races. In 2026, six rounds in, he has yet to take a podium.