Four races into 2026, Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s run of classified results keeps him clear on mean finishing position (DNFs excluded). Miami also nudged both Ferrari drivers down a place, tightening the fight just behind the top two.
By Diego Torres
Andrea Kimi Antonelli remains the benchmark for consistency after round 4 at the Miami International Autodrome, holding P1 in the Most consistent drivers ranking with a mean classified finishing position of 1.25. With this metric excluding DNFs entirely, the picture is deliberately narrow: it rewards the drivers who keep converting weekends into clean, high-end results once classified, and right now Antonelli is doing that better than anyone.
Miami underlined the dynamic at the front. Antonelli won from pole (grid 1 to position 1, 25 points, Finished) and the ranking’s “streak” signal flags that this pattern of dependable classified outcomes is continuing rather than fluctuating. Crucially, there was no change of leader (leaderChanged: false), so the story isn’t a reshuffle at the top — it’s Antonelli consolidating an already elite average while those behind him try to stop the gap hardening into a season-long reference point.
Mercedes owns the top two places on this list, which is a statement in itself this early: Antonelli is first on 1.25, George Russell is second on 2.75. That spread matters because the ranking is about the everyday repeatability of results, not one-off peaks. Over four completed races, being closer to “1” than “3” implies a weekend-to-weekend ceiling that rivals are struggling to match when only classified finishes are counted.
Russell’s 2.75 is still comfortably in “front-running consistency” territory, but the internal gap to Antonelli is the key tension at the sharp end. With the leader unchanged and the maximum movement magnitude only 1 place across the notable movers, Miami didn’t rewrite the order — it clarified it: Mercedes has a stable platform, and the bar for beating it on this metric is exceptionally high.
The top three did change after Miami (topThreeChanged: true), even though the leader did not. Lando Norris is now third with a mean classified finish of 4.00, placing McLaren as the next-best alternative to the Mercedes pair in pure week-to-week finishing dependability. In a ranking designed to ignore DNFs rather than punish them, Norris’s position suggests a season start built on consistently banked classified results rather than volatility.
Just behind that, the Ferrari story is the most visible movement of the week. Charles Leclerc dropped from third to fourth and now sits on 4.50; Lewis Hamilton fell from fourth to fifth on 4.75. Leclerc’s Miami result illustrates how quickly this ranking can swing with a single off-day even when the driver still reaches the flag: he finished P8 from grid 3 (Finished, 4 points, 57 laps), and that kind of classified finish drags the average more than it would in points-only narratives.
The top-10 picture has a couple of important tells even without big position swings. Norris is explicitly in the top 10 entrants list and sits P3 overall on 4.00, reinforcing that his early-season floor has been high enough to translate into this metric. Max Verstappen also features among the top-10 entrants, placed sixth with a mean classified finish of 6.33 — a reminder that the consistency conversation isn’t limited to the podium averages.
Notably, there were no top-10 exits and no listed top gainers, while the maximum movement magnitude was just 1. That combination points to a table that’s starting to set, where the margins are thin and the consequences of a single classified result — like Leclerc’s P8 — are amplified. With a minimum of 3 classified races required to appear at all, simply being present and stable in the ranking already signals a baseline of conversion; the next step is inching those averages down rather than relying on occasional spikes.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 3 | 4 | -1 | 4.50 |
| Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 4 | 5 | -1 | 4.75 |
Antonelli’s Miami win keeps his 1.25 average intact at the top, and with Russell on 2.75 the Mercedes one-two remains the stability reference. The bigger short-term pressure point is behind them: Norris at 4.00 is now the closest non-Mercedes runner, while Ferrari’s Leclerc (4.50) and Hamilton (4.75) have less room for another lower-end classified finish without losing further ground on this reliability-and-conversion metric.