{"id":56188,"date":"2025-08-09T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56188\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:02:07","slug":"2025-f1-average-finishing-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56188\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 F1 average finishing positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri has delivered the most consistent results across the F1 season so far, resulting in the Australian having the best average finishing position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Across the 14 completes grands prix, the championship leader has an average finishing position of 2.4, helped by the Australian having secured six wins already this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has a nine-point advantage over McLaren team-mate Lando Norris, who boasts the second-best average finishing position of exactly 3.0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, despite being third in the F1 drivers&#8217; title, Max Verstappen only has the fourth best average finishing position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four-time world champion&#8217;s average result this season has been 5.1, with recent difficult races having hurt his average following victories in Japan and Imola.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; George Russell actually has the third-best average finishing position, courtesy of a respectable 4.8. With a 6.0, Charles Leclerc completes the top five.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Monegasque&#8217;s average finishing result is 1.4 better than Lewis Hamilton, who does have the sixth-best. Seventh-spot goes to another surprise, as it is not Mercedes&#8217; Kimi Antonelli who holds P7 in the drivers&#8217; title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alex Albon actually boasts the seventh-best average finishing result of a 10.4, ahead of Antonelli&#8217;s 11.3. Interestingly, Albon&#8217;s Williams team-mate Carlos Sainz is 14th on the list with a 13.1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, it is Alpine&#8217;s Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto at the bottom of the 21-driver field, although Doohan&#8217;s score is 0.2 lower than Colapinto&#8217;s \u2013 Doohan&#8217;s average finishing result from the race he completed is 16.3.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most striking figure on the average finishing results leaderboard is Red Bull&#8217;s Yuki Tsunoda, who has the 18th-worst total of 13.6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This average result is a staggering 8.5 lower than Verstappen, highlighting the Japanese driver&#8217;s struggles since being promoted to Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Check out each driver&#8217;s average finishing position so far this season below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has delivered the most consistent results across the F1 season so far, resulting in the Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-56188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56188","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=56188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}