Six rounds in, the Most overtakes ranking remains headed by Max Verstappen on 37, but Monaco reshuffled the chasing pack. Arvid Lindblad’s 4-place gain is the biggest move, while Ocon and Gasly also climb as the top three stays unchanged.
By Nadia Okafor
The headline after Monaco isn’t a change at the very top, but the way the table is compressing beneath it. Max Verstappen remains the season leader for genuine passes with 37, holding off Nico Hülkenberg on 33 and George Russell on 29 after round 6 at the Circuit de Monaco. The top three staying in the same order matters here because this ranking is built on lap-by-lap position swaps that persist, not reputation or highlight moments, and sustaining an advantage across six races is a trend rather than a one-off.
What Monaco did deliver was the weekend’s biggest positional swing in the standings: Arvid Lindblad climbed 4 places from 20th to 16th to reach 16 overtakes for RB F1 Team. That jump is the maximum movement magnitude recorded in this update, and it’s a reminder that in a metric built on accumulated opportunities, a single strong race can shift a driver’s season narrative even when the headline positions don’t move.
Lindblad’s rise is the clearest signal of Monaco’s impact on the midfield of this ranking. Starting the weekend 20th in the table, he now sits 16th with 16 overtakes, and the race result gives context for how that can happen: he went from 15th on the grid to 7th at the finish, covering 78 laps and scoring 6 points. The ranking’s methodology filters out pit-stop shuffles unless the position gain sticks to the flag, so moving forward and staying there is exactly what converts a busy Sunday into durable progress in this table.
Behind him, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly put together quieter but meaningful climbs that change the shape of the top-10 chase. Ocon is up 3 places from 10th to 7th on 25 overtakes for Haas F1 Team, while Gasly rises 3 from 14th to 11th on 21 for Alpine F1 Team. Neither move puts them into the top three, but both jumps are the sort that can decide who becomes the next name to threaten the established leaders as the season lengthens.
The flipside of those gains is a trio of 3-place drops that underline how quickly relative momentum can shift in an accumulated ranking. Andrea Kimi Antonelli slides from 11th to 14th on 20 overtakes even though he won the Monaco Grand Prix from pole, taking 25 points over 78 laps. That contrast is instructive: a driver can control a race and still not add heavily to an “overtakes” tally, because this metric rewards passing rather than pace from the front.
Lewis Hamilton drops 3 places from 16th to 19th with 13 overtakes for Ferrari, and Valtteri Bottas falls 3 from 18th to 21st with 12 for Cadillac F1 Team. In a table where ties are settled by season points and then alphabetically, losing rank with modest totals is costly: it can take multiple strong races to regain the same ground that can be lost in a single update.
Two things can be true at once after Monaco: the top is stable, and the rest is volatile. Verstappen’s 37 remains the benchmark, but with Hülkenberg on 33 and Russell on 29, the gaps are small enough that a couple of productive races can redraw the order even without a ‘leader changed’ flag. The ranking also notes the streak continuing, reinforcing that this is an ongoing season-long accumulation rather than a one-week anomaly.
There’s also a subtle reminder in the weekend’s headline results: Verstappen is still first in the Most overtakes standings despite retiring in Monaco with 0 laps completed and 0 points. Retirements don’t create phantom passes in this metric, but the season total still stands, so the real fight now is whether the chasers can turn more of their weekends into the kind of sticky gains that count here, rather than one-off swings that fade when the next race resets the opportunity landscape.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arvid Lindblad | RB F1 Team | 20 | 16 | +4 | 16 |
| Esteban Ocon | Haas F1 Team | 10 | 7 | +3 | 25 |
| Pierre Gasly | Alpine F1 Team | 14 | 11 | +3 | 21 |
Verstappen’s 37 keeps him clear, but the gaps behind are workable: Hülkenberg is 4 back and Russell 8 back after six races. Monaco’s biggest story is the mid-table squeeze—Lindblad, Ocon and Gasly have moved themselves into range where one more productive weekend could reshape the top-10 conversation.