Six races into 2026, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Lewis Hamilton both sit on six top-10 finishes, keeping the consistency table locked at the top. Monaco also flipped the lower top-10 picture, with Isack Hadjar entering and Oliver Bearman dropping out after a retirement.
By Diego Torres
The headline after round 6 at Monaco is stability at the very top: Andrea Kimi Antonelli remains P1 on the Most top-10 finishes ranking with 6, and Lewis Hamilton stays right with him in P2 on 6. With no leader change and no change to the top three, the early-season story here is not momentum swings but two drivers avoiding the one thing this table punishes hardest: non-finishes.
Antonelli’s Monaco result underlined that theme in the cleanest possible way: pole, 78 laps completed, and the win for 25 points. In a ranking defined by being classified and finishing 10th or better, that kind of weekend keeps the streak intact and keeps the pressure on anyone trying to close in through sheer volume of solid points-paying finishes rather than occasional peaks.
Ferrari is the only team placing two drivers in the top three of this specific metric, and it’s because Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are building their season on repeatability. Hamilton matches Antonelli on a perfect 6-from-6 run of top-10s; Leclerc sits P3 with 5, the nearest challenger to the joint lead even though the top three order did not change after Monaco.
That split between 6 and 5 is small, but meaningful: it captures the difference between a season that has avoided any slip outside the top 10 and one that has absorbed just a single miss so far. In a reliability-and-consistency ranking, the margins aren’t measured in tenths or overtakes; they’re measured in whether a weekend becomes a score or a blank.
The biggest movers were further back, where one extra top-10 can swing a driver several positions. Alexander Albon climbed three places from 14th to 11th, and Esteban Ocon also gained three from 15th to 12th; both now sit on 2 top-10 finishes. Albon’s Monaco weekend provided a clear example of how that happens: he started 11th, finished 8th, and turned it into 4 points across 78 laps — exactly the kind of banked result this ranking rewards.
Isack Hadjar was the other notable riser, up two places from 12th to 10th, also reaching 2 top-10 finishes. That move mattered because it coincided with a change in the top-10 group itself: Hadjar became the new P10 entrant, reshuffling the lower end of the table without touching the headline battle at the front.
Oliver Bearman is the clearest cautionary tale from Monaco in this metric. He dropped three places from 10th to 13th and is now on just 1 top-10 finish, and crucially he also became the driver who exited the top-10 bracket of the ranking. The reason is simple within this methodology: retirements never count, and Bearman’s Monaco status was Retired after 27 laps from a 19th-place start.
That single ‘Retired’ entry doesn’t just remove a scoring opportunity; it creates separation in a table where many drivers are clustered on 1 or 2. Franco Colapinto and Carlos Sainz also lost three positions each (to 14th and 16th respectively) and both sit on 1, reinforcing how quickly the mid-table can be reshaped when a weekend fails to become a classified top-10 finish.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Albon | Williams | 14 | 11 | +3 | 2 |
| Esteban Ocon | Haas F1 Team | 15 | 12 | +3 | 2 |
| Oliver Bearman | Haas F1 Team | 10 | 13 | -3 | 1 |
With Antonelli and Hamilton both on 6 top-10s after 6 races, the consistency lead can’t be taken on pace alone — it needs someone else to run off their own uninterrupted run while the leaders finally miss the top 10. Behind them, Leclerc’s 5 keeps him within one solid weekend of the joint lead, while the 1–2 top-10 cluster is volatile: a single retirement or an extra P10-level finish is currently worth multiple positions.