{"id":768813,"date":"2026-06-29T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768813\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:34:09","slug":"f1-drivers-championship-standings-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768813\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Drivers\u2019 Championship standings 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the calendar set to flip to July, it is a perfect time to check the standings.<\/p>\n

The Formula 1 Drivers\u2019 Championship standings, that is.<\/p>\n

Kimi Antonelli remains in the lead ahead of the British Grand Prix, thanks to a string of five consecutive wins, but teammate George Russell pulled within 40 points of the young Mercedes driver thanks to Sunday\u2019s win at the Austrian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton is lurking as well, in the wake of his first Grand Prix win for Ferrari, coming at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Here are the 2026 F1 Drivers\u2019 Championship standings following the Austrian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

2026 F1 Drivers\u2019 Championship Standings<\/p>\n

Here are the current F1 Drivers\u2019 Championship standings, following the Austrian Grand Prix on June 28.<\/p>\n

PositionDriverTeamPointsBest Finish1Kimi AntonelliMercedes17112George RussellMercedes13113Lewis HamiltonFerrari12514Oscar PiastriMcLaren8025Lando NorrisMcLaren7926Charles LeclercFerrari7937Max VerstappenRed Bull7328Isack HadjarRed Bull4249Pierre GaslyAlpine41310Liam LawsonVCARB30611Oliver BearmanHaas18512Franco ColapintoAlpine16613Arvid LindbladVCARB14714Carlos SainzWilliams6915Alexander AlbonWilliams5816Esteban OconHaas3917Gabriel BortoletoAudi2918Fernando AlonsoAston Martin11019Nico H\u00fclkenbergAudi01120Valtteri BottasCadillac01321Sergio P\u00e9rezCadillac01422Lance StrollAston Martin015<\/p>\n

How does F1 scoring work?<\/p>\n

In the Grand Prix format, the top ten finishers score points. The winner of the Grand Prix collects 25 points, while the second-place finisher earns 18 and the third-place finisher earns 15.<\/p>\n

Here is the allocation for points in the top ten of a Grand Prix race:<\/p>\n

P1: 25 points
P2: 18 points
P3: 15 points
P4: 12 points
P5: 10 points
P6: 8 points
P7: 6 points
P8: 4 points
P9: 2 points
P10: 1 point<\/p>\n

In an F1 Sprint race, the top eight finishers score points, starting with eight points for the winner, down to one point for the driver finishing eighth.<\/p>\n

How do tiebreakers work in F1?<\/p>\n

Tiebreakers in the F1 standings work on a \u201ccountback\u201d system, looking at race results. For example, when there is a tie at the top of the standings, that is broken by counting the number of Grand Prix wins. If, hypothetically, two drivers finish the year tied in points atop the standings, the driver with the most Grand Prix wins would win the championship. If that number is the same, the driver with the most second-place finishes would win, working down the finishing order until the tie is broken.<\/p>\n

This countback system came into play last year<\/a> when Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri, and Lando Norris were battling for the 2025 Drivers\u2019 Championship. Heading into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, all three drivers had seven Grand Prix victories, so Norris\u2019 eight second-place finishes — compared to five for Verstappen and four for Piastri — gave the eventual Drivers\u2019 Champion an advantage on countback.<\/p>\n

Looking at the standings this year, our first tie involves Norris and Charles Leclerc, who both have 79 points. Norris sits ahead in the standings thanks to his second-place finish at the Miami Grand Prix, while Leclerc\u2019s best finish is a P3.<\/p>\n

We can also see the countback system at the bottom of the standings. Nico H\u00fclkenberg, Valtteri Bottas, Sergio P\u00e9rez, and Lance Stroll are the four drivers yet to score a point this year. H\u00fclkenberg sits 19th in the standings thanks to a pair of P11 finishes (first in China and then in Japan). Bottas is next, with a P13 from the Chinese Grand Prix, followed by P\u00e9rez, who finished 14th at the Spanish Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Stroll rounds out the field in P22, as his best finish this year was a P15 at his home race, the Canadian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the calendar set to flip to July, it is a perfect time to check the standings. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-768813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}