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Charles Leclerc's 2026 season, measured: a first Silverstone win, and three races that ended off the track
Charles Leclerc won the British Grand Prix for his ninth career victory and is fifth in the 2026 championship on 167 points. Three races ended off the track: no brakes at Monaco, a hydraulic failure in Barcelona, and a heavy crash at Monza. Every race, and what he said on the radio.
Lando Norris's 2026 season, measured: two wins, three poles, and four weekends his McLaren took away
Lando Norris is fourth in the 2026 championship on 186 points, with wins in Hungary and at Zandvoort. His car cost him four weekends: a non-start in China, failures in Canada and Monaco, and a grid penalty at Spa. Every race, and what he said on the radio.
George Russell's 2026 season, measured: three sprint wins, two Grand Prix wins, and three races taken away
George Russell is second in the 2026 championship on 211 points, with more sprint wins than anyone. He is also the driver who lost most to things outside his control: a battery failure from the lead in Canada, a first lap exit at Spa, and a penalty Mercedes served wrongly in Monaco.
Max Verstappen's 2026 season, measured: no wins yet, four retirements, and a Red Bull that is getting faster
Max Verstappen has not won a Grand Prix in 2026 and has retired four times, but he scored 84 race points in the last seven rounds against 49 in the first seven. Every race, every retirement, and what he said on the radio.
Lewis Hamilton's 2026 season, measured: the first Ferrari win, and thirteen points finishes in a row
Lewis Hamilton won for Ferrari in Barcelona, 686 days after his previous victory, and scored in the first thirteen races of 2026 before his brakes failed in Madrid. Every race, and what he said on the radio.
Kimi Antonelli's 2026 season, measured: eight wins, six poles and two races that got away
Kimi Antonelli has won eight of the fourteen Grands Prix of 2026 and leads the championship by 81 points at 20. Every race, where he started and finished, the two he lost, and what he said on the radio.
Every 2026 F1 circuit, drawn by the car itself
Fourteen maps of every Formula 1 track raced in 2026, each drawn from a real qualifying lap's position data rather than traced. Top speeds, slowest corners and the circuits that never drop below 100 km/h.
Every F1 companion app compared, including ours
Live timing, team radio, telemetry, widgets and fantasy, across the apps F1 fans actually use in 2026. What each one costs, which platforms it runs on, and what it genuinely does. We make one of them, and we say so.
We counted every word of F1 radio this season. "Box box" was said five times.
Every broadcast team radio line of 2026, counted. Thank you appears 121 times, well done 69, mate 67. The most famous phrase in Formula 1 radio was said five times all season.
F1 broadcast 636 radio messages this season. A quarter of them were Mercedes.
We counted every team radio message Formula 1 broadcast in 2026. Kimi Antonelli has been played 85 times, Yuki Tsunoda and Lance Stroll four each, and the gap tracks the championship more closely than it tracks anything else.
Baku's reputation is chaos. Five races of team radio disagree.
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix averages 89 broadcast radio messages a race against 112 across every circuit, 14th of 16. The chaos is real, but it sits almost entirely in two seasons.
F1's 2027 calendar has 10 sprints. We measured the overtaking at every one.
The full 2027 calendar, from Bahrain on 14 March to Abu Dhabi on 12 December, plus our own measurement of the ten sprint venues. Two of them are the hardest places to pass in Formula 1.