Round 5 in Montreal didn’t change the championship leader, but it did produce the largest positional shift: Arvid Lindblad slid two places after failing to start. Up front, Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s win kept him comfortably clear while Lewis Hamilton’s Canadian GP podium lifted him to fourth in the standings.
By Nadia Okafor
The sharpest standings movement after the Canadian Grand Prix came from Arvid Lindblad, whose “Did not start” at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve translated into a two-place drop from 12th to 14th on just 5 points. With the maximum movement magnitude this week only 2 positions, that slide stands out as the clearest reminder that the midfield order remains volatile even when the title picture holds steady.
At the top, it was a weekend of consolidation. Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s 25-point win from grid position 2 keeps him leading the championship on 131, and with Mercedes team-mate George Russell second on 88 the gap remains a substantial 43 points. Charles Leclerc stays third on 75, meaning the top three positions are unchanged after five races completed — a continuity that underlines how hard it’s proving for anyone outside that trio to force a shake-up through a single round.
Behind them, Lewis Hamilton provided the most consequential upward move among the frontrunners: his 18 points for finishing second in Canada takes him to 72 and lifts him from fifth to fourth in the standings for Ferrari. That reshuffle comes at Lando Norris’s expense, as Norris drops one place from fourth to fifth on 58, while further back Pierre Gasly’s step from ninth to eighth on 20 for Alpine and Isack Hadjar’s rise to 12th on 14 show that smaller point totals are still buying meaningful ranking gains this early in the season.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arvid Lindblad | RB F1 Team | 12 | 14 | -2 | 5 |
| Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 5 | 4 | +1 | 72 |
| Pierre Gasly | Alpine F1 Team | 9 | 8 | +1 | 20 |
Antonelli’s 131 points keep him 43 clear of Russell (88), and the unchanged top three suggests stability at the front — but Hamilton’s move to fourth on 72 and the tight shuffling further back show how quickly positions can still change after a single low-scoring weekend.