Formula 1 2026 Drivers

Drivers’ Championship

🏆 Driver Power Rankings

Our own order, not the championship table: it weighs points scored relative to the pace of the car a driver has under them, plus how much they’re beating their own teammate by in qualifying - the one comparison where the car is identical. Someone dragging points out of a midfield car can outrank one cruising in the quickest. Pts/race and car pace are shown alongside rather than folded into a single figure - the columns are the reasoning, not a black box.

🔀 Overtaking

On-track passes, counted lap by lap across the season - who actually came forward, and at whose expense. Places gained between the grid and the flag are a different number entirely: a driver passed five times who recovers to finish ahead of where they started reads as a clean drive there, and as a busy afternoon here.

The first lap is excluded, because a standing start isn’t overtaking. So is any change while either car was on an in-lap or out-lap, and any place inherited when a car retired. Positions are published once per lap, so a pass and an immediate re-pass cancel out - these are a floor, not a broadcast count.

⚡ Qualifying pace vs teammate

The one place a lap-time gap belongs to the driver rather than the car: the median qualifying margin over the only other person running identical machinery. One row per team - the driver who’s ahead - since the gap is the same number both ways round. Median rather than average, so a wet session or a crash doesn’t swing it.

Read it as a head-to-head, not a grid-wide ladder: beating a struggling teammate by half a second isn’t the same feat as beating a strong one by a tenth.

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