After round 4 at Miami, Andrea Kimi Antonelli has moved into the top spot on 64.2, edging ahead of Max Verstappen on 63.3. Charles Leclerc’s slide from first to third, down to 40.7, is the biggest swing at the sharp end.
By Camille Fontaine
The Power ranking lead has changed hands after the Miami Grand Prix, with Andrea Kimi Antonelli jumping from P2 to P1 on a 64.2 composite score. With Max Verstappen sitting just 0.9 points back on 63.3, Antonelli’s takeover reads less like a runaway and more like the tightening of a two-driver fight at the top — the kind where a single weekend’s blend of qualifying, finishing position, teammate head-to-head and positions gained can flip the order.
What made Miami a decisive inflection point in the table was the downward pull on Charles Leclerc’s score. Leclerc slips from P1 to P3, falling two places to 40.7, and the underlying results offered little protection: he qualified third and finished eighth, banking 4 points across 57 laps. In a methodology that heavily rewards teammate comparisons and rewards converting starting position into a strong finish, that kind of weekend exposes you twice — it dents the finishing side while also narrowing the margin you had built earlier in the season.
Leclerc isn’t the only Ferrari driver to feel the squeeze. Lewis Hamilton drops one spot from P3 to P4, landing at 40.6, a near dead-heat with Leclerc that underlines how crowded the ranking becomes once you fall off the Verstappen/Antonelli pace. Behind them, Mercedes’ internal picture also tightened: George Russell slips from P4 to P5 on 35.3 while Antonelli goes the other way, a reminder that the teammate head-to-head (40% of the score) can move the needle quickly when both cars have the required sample.
Further back, the top 10 has fresh movement too: Lando Norris enters at P6 on 31.7, while there are no top-10 exits listed for this round. With four races completed and a maximum movement magnitude of 2 places, Miami didn’t reshuffle the whole order — but it did decisively redraw the narrative at the very front, and it set up a points-tight duel between P1 and P2 on the composite score.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1 | 3 | -2 | 40.7 |
| Andrea Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 2 | 1 | +1 | 64.2 |
| Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 3 | 4 | -1 | 40.6 |
Antonelli’s 64.2 puts him in control of the ranking, but Verstappen remains within 0.9 on 63.3, so the lead is still highly volatile. The bigger story is the gap behind them: Leclerc’s drop to 40.7 and Hamilton at 40.6 leaves Ferrari fighting for best-of-the-rest positions rather than the outright lead on composite score.