The 2026 regulation reset has completely reshuffled the F1 order, with the sport’s new rules creating clear winners and losers compared to 12 months ago.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The biggest story is Kimi Antonelli. The Italian finished seventh in the 2025 standings with 150 points as a rookie.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Now, he leads the 2026 championship after the Hungarian Grand Prix, sitting on 219 points according to reports.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Mercedes’ mastery of the new hybrid deployment rules has turned their young star into a title favourite at the halfway point\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton has also surged forward, climbing from sixth in 2025 to inside the top three, while George Russell has consolidated his position as a genuine title contender.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
On the other side of the ledger, the drop-off for the 2025 frontrunners has been stark. Lando Norris, last year’s world champion points, sits a distant fifth.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen, runner-up in 2025, has slipped to sixth. Oscar Piastri, who finished third last season, finds himself outside the top five.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
See the full comparison below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 regulation reset has completely reshuffled the F1 order, with the sport’s new rules creating clear winners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848136,"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-848135","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\/848135","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=848135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}