Isack Hadjar is the new Momentum ranking leader after Monaco, posting a +6.00 swing as Red Bull locks out the top two. Lando Norris endured the sharpest reversal of the season’s trend table, sliding from third to 19th.
By Nadia Okafor
The Momentum ranking has a new reference point after the Monaco Grand Prix: Isack Hadjar. Red Bull’s driver replaces Oscar Piastri at the top with a +6.00 score, reflecting a recent three-race points-per-race rate that is six points higher than his earlier-season baseline. That shift lands in a round where Hadjar banked 12 points for fourth from fifth on the grid, and it also underlines how quickly the trend picture can turn once the comparison window is only three races deep.
Behind him, the shape of the top end is increasingly defined by Red Bull’s form spike. Max Verstappen sits second on +4.33, with Franco Colapinto matching that +4.33 in third for Alpine F1 Team, making the top three both tightly packed and newly reordered. Piastri’s drop from first to fifth despite a still-healthy +2.33 is a reminder that this is a relative ranking: staying positive is not the same as keeping pace with the sharpest risers across the last three rounds.
The most violent swing belongs to McLaren, and specifically Lando Norris. He plunged 16 places from third to 19th and is now the only highlighted mover carrying a negative number (−0.67), after scoring zero points in Monaco with a retirement at 43 laps from eighth on the grid. In the same week, Lewis Hamilton produced the counterpoint: Ferrari’s driver rocketed from 19th to fourth (+3.00) on the back of 18 points for second from third on the grid, while Liam Lawson’s RB F1 Team surge from 15th to seventh (+2.00) adds another strand to the mid-pack trend battle.
The top 10 also has churn beyond the headline moves. Lawson, Pierre Gasly (up eight from 17th to ninth on +1.33) and Arvid Lindblad (10th on +0.67) are now in the top group, while Lando Norris, Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso drop out of it. With no streak indicated and a maximum movement magnitude of 16 this week, the ranking is signaling a season entering its volatile phase rather than settling into a fixed order.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lando Norris | McLaren | 3 | 19 | -16 | −0.67 |
| Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 19 | 4 | +15 | +3.00 |
| Liam Lawson | RB F1 Team | 15 | 7 | +8 | +2.00 |
Hadjar’s +6.00 makes him the benchmark in recent-form acceleration, but Verstappen (+4.33) and Colapinto (+4.33) are close enough that one strong three-race swing can reshuffle the top three again. The bigger story may be volatility: Norris dropping to 19th and Hamilton jumping to fourth shows the Momentum table is now sensitive to single-round extremes, with the top 10 boundary already shifting in and out for multiple drivers.