2026 Momentum Tracker
F1 Form Guide
The championship table tells you who has scored the most points this year. The Form Guide tells you who is hot right now. We track every driver's last five races to reveal who is on the rise, who is slumping, and who is riding a streak — measured after 16 rounds of the 2026 season, up to the Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang.
On the Rise
Drivers whose recent results are trending sharply upward — climbing the order or scoring well above their early-season baseline.
Slumping
Drivers heading the other way — recent finishes sliding backward or falling below what their season has promised.
The Full Form Table
Every driver ranked by Form Rating. Last 5 shows finishing positions in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Azerbaijan and Bahrain (oldest → newest). Trend reflects the direction of those results, not their raw quality — a front-runner can be steady while a midfielder rockets up the order. Tap any column header to sort.
| # | Driver | Team | Last 5 Results | Trend | Recent Pts | Season Avg | Form Rating▼ |
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Recent Pts = championship points scored across the last five races. Season Avg = points per race across all 16 rounds (sprint points included in the season total). A driver scoring well above their season average is in a purple patch; below it, a dip. DNFs count as a back-of-grid finish for trend and rating.
Streaks to Watch
The runs that define a season-within-a-season — the hot streaks carrying drivers to the front, and the cold streaks they are desperate to break.
Max Verstappen
The hunt is over. Verstappen's grand chelem in the Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang — pole, win, fastest lap, every lap led — was his first victory of the 2026 season. It capped a run of P3, P2, P2, P1 since the Zandvoort crash, the steepest rise on the grid. He sits fifth in the championship on 196 points.
Kimi Antonelli
Eight wins in sixteen races, four podiums in his last five — but no victories since Madrid. Fifth in Baku and second in Bahrain kept the gap healthy: he leads on 325 points, 89 clear of Russell, with a Form Rating of 92 and the championship firmly in his hands.
Isack Hadjar
A podium on the race of his return. Hadjar missed three rounds through injury but came back at Baku and immediately finished third, then fifth in Bahrain. Two races, two top-five finishes and a Form Rating of 77 on just a two-race sample — the recovery has been seamless.
Lando Norris
A Zandvoort win feels a long time ago. Since then Norris has managed P6, P3, a DNF in Baku and P9 in Bahrain — a window of P1, P6, P3, DNF, P9. The downward slide drops him to sixth in the championship on 189 points, now seven behind Verstappen.
Pierre Gasly
From a strong summer of P6, P7, P8 to a DNF in Baku and a dismal P16 in Bahrain. The form collapse has been stark — Gasly's Form Rating has halved. He still sits tenth in the championship on 41 points, but the recent trend is all wrong.
George Russell
The win in Baku — with the fastest lap — was Russell at his best: P3, P2, P5, P1 across four races. But a retirement in Bahrain ended the run and sent his trend crashing downward. He holds second in the championship on 236 points, 89 behind Antonelli.
How the Form Rating Works
The Form Rating is a 1–100 score that answers a simple question: how good is this driver right now? It is built from each driver's last five races and rewards two things at once — the quality of those finishes and their direction.
A driver who finishes on the podium every weekend scores in the 80s and 90s. A driver climbing from the midfield toward the points earns a momentum bonus that lifts their rating above their raw results. A driver sliding backward — or retiring — is marked down. DNFs are treated as a last-place finish, because in form terms a zero hurts.
Crucially, the Trend arrow is separate from the rating. Trend measures the slope of a driver's recent finishes — are results getting better or worse across the five-race window? That's why a dominant leader can sit at "steady" (already at the front, nowhere higher to climb) while a recovering midfielder shows a green up-arrow.
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Form Guide — FAQ
What is the F1 Form Guide?
It's a momentum tracker. Instead of ranking drivers by their season-long points total, it ranks them by recent results — the last five races — to show who is improving, who is declining, and who is on a hot or cold streak.
How is the Form Rating calculated?
It blends the quality of a driver's last five finishes with their trajectory across the window. Front-running, improving drivers score near 100; poor or worsening runs score low. DNFs are counted as a back-of-grid finish, so retirements drag the rating down.
Why is the Trend arrow different from the Form Rating?
The rating measures how good results are; the trend measures which way they're heading. A championship leader already at the front can be "steady" with a high rating, while a midfielder climbing fast shows a rising arrow with a lower rating.
Which driver has the best form in 2026?
After 16 rounds, Kimi Antonelli leads the Form Rating with four podiums in his last five races, including wins at Monza and Madrid. Max Verstappen is the biggest riser after his first 2026 win — a grand chelem in Bahrain — pushed him to a Form Rating of 90 with three straight podiums since Zandvoort.
How often is the Form Guide updated?
The window rolls forward with the season — each new Grand Prix drops the oldest race and adds the latest, so the picture always reflects the most recent five rounds. This snapshot is current to the Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang, round 16 of 2026.