The Belgian Grand Prix didn’t budge the top three of 2026’s Most positions lost ranking, but it reshuffled the midfield list: Isack Hadjar plunged from fourth to 19th while Arvid Lindblad and Oliver Bearman forced their way into the top 10.
By Camille Fontaine
Andrea Kimi Antonelli remains the season’s standout in a category no frontrunner wants to lead: after 10 races, the Mercedes driver still sits first in Most positions lost on −12. Spa only underlined why he can carry that number without it defining his Sundays: he converted pole into victory at the Belgian Grand Prix, finishing 1st from a 1st-place grid slot across 44 laps and collecting 25 points.
With leaderChanged flagged false and the top three unchanged, the headline at the very top is stability: George Russell stays second on −6 and Charles Leclerc remains third on −2. But that calm at the front is deceptive. The Belgian weekend produced the biggest movement of the entire ranking update (a 15-place swing in the standings), and it came from a driver whose Spa result was the opposite of losing ground.
Isack Hadjar’s Belgian Grand Prix was all about gaining positions on track, yet it was brutal for his season-long place-change profile. He started 21st and finished 6th — a net gain of 15 places — and scored 8 points. In a ranking that totals finish-minus-grid across the season, that kind of recovery is exactly what drags you away from the “most positions lost” end of the table.
The effect was dramatic: Hadjar drops from 4th to 19th in this ranking in one update, with his valueDisplay now sitting at +15. That tells you how sensitive the table is to a single outlier weekend, especially around the top-10 boundary: one big comeback can erase months of accumulated losses and send a driver tumbling down the list.
Arvid Lindblad was the most visible climber inside the table’s upper reaches. He jumps five spots, from 11th to 6th, with a season valueDisplay of +4. Spa itself was slightly negative for him in pure grid-vs-finish terms — he started 7th and finished 9th (2 points) — yet the broader trend across 10 rounds is now positive enough to put him firmly in the top 10 of the ranking for the first time in this update.
Lando Norris moved the other way, slipping from 8th to 13th with a valueDisplay of +11. In other words, he’s now further away from being among the season’s biggest net position losers, and that shift was significant enough to be listed among the weekend’s key movers.
Spa sharpened the ranking’s middle-class tension: the top 10 had turnover, with both Isack Hadjar and Lando Norris exiting that group. Replacing them were Lindblad (now 6th) and Oliver Bearman, who leapt from 12th to 8th and carries a valueDisplay of +6 — a strong season-long signal that he is, on balance, gaining rather than losing places from where he starts.
There was also a quieter but telling mover deeper in the list: Pierre Gasly advanced four spots, from 18th to 14th, with +11. Across the same 10-race sample, these positive totals are stacking up for several drivers, which matters because it compresses the meaningful end of the table and leaves the top three’s negative figures standing out even more sharply.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isack Hadjar | Red Bull | 4 | 19 | -15 | +15 |
| Arvid Lindblad | RB F1 Team | 11 | 6 | +5 | +4 |
| Lando Norris | McLaren | 8 | 13 | -5 | +11 |
With Antonelli still first on −12 and the top three unchanged, the fight is now more about who can avoid a ‘Hadjar-style’ swing: one 15-place comeback (21st to 6th) was enough to eject two names from the top 10 and pull positive-movers like Lindblad and Bearman into the spotlight.