Despite missing out on the F1 drivers\u2019 title, Max Verstappen achieved the best average finishing position across the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Excluding retirements, the four-time world champion recorded an average finishing position of 3.67, making him the only driver to finish, on average, better than fourth.<\/p>\n
Remarkably, world champion Lando Norris did not even have the second-best average finishing position, instead ranking third behind McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n
Piastri\u2019s average finishing position was 4.21, narrowly better than Norris\u2019 4.25. Interestingly, George Russell was only just adrift of Norris\u2019 result, with the Mercedes driver posting an average finishing position of 4.54.<\/p>\n
Completing the top five was Charles Leclerc, although the Monegasque was considerably adrift of the top four with an average of 6.75.<\/p>\n
Despite not being close to the top spots, the Ferrari driver comfortably outperformed team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who had the sixth-best average finishing position at 8.5.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With an average of 9.83, Kimi Antonelli in seventh was the only other driver to record an average finishing position inside the top 10.<\/p>\n
While Verstappen had the best average finishing position, Yuki Tsunoda was 12th on the list, with an average result of 12.58 \u2014 almost nine positions worse than the Dutchman.<\/p>\n
To conclude Alpine\u2019s dreadful season, its three drivers \u2014 Pierre Gasly, Franco Colapinto, and Jack Doohan \u2014 recorded the three worst average finishing positions.<\/p>\n
Gasly managed an average finishing position of 14.58, considerably better than Colapinto\u2019s 16.06 and Doohan\u2019s 16.33.<\/p>\n
Check out each driver’s average finishing position below (excluding DNFs)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite missing out on the F1 drivers\u2019 title, Max Verstappen achieved the best average finishing position across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-373887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}