6 events or 20% of the season has been run. After 5 Grands Prix and 1 sprint race where do we stand?

The Formula One World Drivers’ Championship (WDC) and the Formula One World Constructors’ Championship (WCC) have some of the preseasons expectations realised but not others.

After the testing in Bahrain the expectations were that Lando Norris would achieve the WDC and McLaren the WCC. Mercedes, Red Bull and Williams should compete from the looks of their long runs. The radical Ferraris were not so good in their long runs, but should improve very rapidly and become contenders. Lewis would find the new challenge an invigorating experience and become competitive very quickly and soon be challenging Charles Leclerc.

The actual drivers’ performance at each event was as shown in the table below, at the end of the Saudi Arabia weekend-

F1 INDIVIDUAL DRIVERS’ POINTS

By the end of the Saudi Arabia weekend the accumulated drivers’ position is –

ACCUMULATED DRIVER’S POINTS

Graphically, the top ten drivers look like this-

TOP 10 DRIVERS’ POINTS

The teams (constructors) position from their drivers’ points is-

ACCUMULATED CONSTRUCTORS’ POINTS

Which graphically is-

CONSTRUCTORS’ POINTS

The McLaren cars are certainly proving to be the fastest car so far in the season. With their two drivers proving to be the fastest, having won all five GPs and Oscar Piastri coming second in the China Sprint Race. The surprise is that Oscar Piastri is comprehensively beating Lando Norris.

Mercedes, with two performing drivers, George Russell and rookie Kimi Antonelli, are coming second in the WCC.

Red Bull are third having only one performing driver in Max Verstappen. Having already changed the second driver after the China weekend, swapping Liam Lawson for Yuki Tsunoda, Yuki Tsunoda’s 2 points for the team is encouraging.

Ferrari are fourth. Charles Leclerc has 47 points and Lewis Hamilton 31 points. Had Ferrari not had disqualifications for both cars at the China GP, they would have been in third place. (See report Four race weekends, four disqualifications)