Max Verstappen leads the drivers championship by seven points from Sergio Perez after the Bahrain Grand Prix.
2023 F1 drivers championship standings
| Position | Driver | Points | Gap to leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | 25 | |
| 2 | Sergio Perez | 18 | 7 |
| 3 | Fernando Alonso | 15 | 10 |
| 4 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | 12 | 13 |
| 5 | Lewis Hamilton | 10 | 15 |
| 6 | Lance Stroll | 8 | 17 |
| 7 | George Russell | 6 | 19 |
| 8 | Valtteri Bottas | 4 | 21 |
| 9 | Pierre Gasly | 2 | 23 |
| 10 | Alexander Albon | 1 | 24 |
| 11 | Yuki Tsunoda | 0 | 25 |
| 12 | Logan Sargeant | 0 | 25 |
| 13 | Kevin Magnussen | 0 | 25 |
| 14 | Nyck de Vries | 0 | 25 |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | 0 | 25 |
| 16 | Zhou Guanyu | 0 | 25 |
| 17 | Lando Norris | 0 | 25 |
2023 F1 constructors championship standings
| Position | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Bull | 43 |
| 2 | Aston Martin | 23 |
| 3 | Mercedes | 16 |
| 4 | Ferrari | 12 |
| 5 | Alfa Romeo | 4 |
| 6 | Alpine | 2 |
| 7 | Williams | 1 |
| 8 | AlphaTauri | 0 |
| 9 | Haas | 0 |
| 10 | McLaren | 0 |
Standings with 1 out of 23 races complete.
2023 Bahrain Grand Prix
- FIA no longer applying its limit on F1 cars ‘porpoising’
- Why F1’s 2023 tyres are requiring drivers to change their management style
- The familiar and unfamiliar problems holding McLaren back at the start of 2023
- ‘Not like a rookie’: How McLaren glimpsed Piastri’s potential in curtailed debut
- “I’m a shouty guy”: Tsunoda told to rein in “emotional” radio chatter
Jere (@jerejj)
5th March 2023, 17:31
Zhou’s late extra stop was clearly about taking away the bonus point from Gasly so that his team would be two points ahead rather than one.
Wybe
5th March 2023, 18:33
Yes, playing the long game from the start, respect!
GeeMac (@geemac)
6th March 2023, 10:04
@jerejj The team said as much in their radio message to Bottas after the race.
yyyeeeaaahhh
5th March 2023, 18:43
I understand the “gap to leader” can be useful to some by calculating how many races left * 25pts for pilots to be mathematically eligible for WDC, could you please add a graphical progression as well, as was done a few year back ? I find it nice to see the, well, progression of points in addition to the single table of total points
Adam (@rocketpanda)
5th March 2023, 19:46
I was so pleased to see Albon take a point for Williams. With how far away they’ve been for so long coming in to this race they were absolutely not at the bottom of the grid and it was refreshing to see both cars battling for the midfield/lower points.
Maho Pacheco
6th March 2023, 2:43
Piastri is not happy with his gamble.
Lamalas (@lamalas)
6th March 2023, 12:35
Mc Laren won’t admit it not even to themselves, but they haven’t been a top team since 2013. 2012 Was their last season with more than 1 victory.
They still behave like a top team but now they are not even the fastest mercedes custommer team anymore. Past performance does not help present or future performance. In my view, the decline truly began when they lost Newey to Red Bull in 2005.
Xavi
7th March 2023, 2:12
The waste of time and talent that has passed thru that Team since then.
Jason Button, Sergio Perez, Daniel Ric among others
Shame