Round 9 at Silverstone flips the top of the Momentum ranking, with George Russell now the form leader on +9.17. Lando Norris delivers the biggest climb of the week, while Pierre Gasly suffers the sharpest collapse out of the top 10.
By Camille Fontaine
George Russell is the new leader of the Momentum ranking after the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, replacing previous leader Isack Hadjar. Russell’s +9.17 is the clearest statement of current form in this table: across the most recent 3 rounds, his points-per-race rate has accelerated by 9.17 compared with his earlier-season baseline.
What makes the change at the top notable is the gap it creates immediately. Russell now sits 4.50 clear of Lando Norris in second (+4.67), and 4.84 ahead of Hadjar in third (+4.33). In a metric built to measure “right now versus before,” that margin is the difference between a mild upswing and a surge that reshapes the front of the list.
Norris produced the week’s headline movement: up 15 places from 17th to 2nd, landing on +4.67 for McLaren. That is not just a climb into the top 10; it is a leap straight into the title of Russell’s nearest challenger in this form table, and it arrives in a round where the ranking’s top three also reshuffled.
The contrast inside McLaren is sharp in the same update. Oscar Piastri drops from 3rd to 9th (down 6) despite still sitting slightly positive at +0.17, a reminder that this ranking is measuring change in scoring rate rather than raw output alone. With Norris accelerating and Piastri only marginally above zero, the team suddenly has two very different momentum trajectories even though both values are on the positive side of the line.
Pierre Gasly is the biggest loser of the British Grand Prix Momentum update: down 17 places from 4th to 21st for Alpine F1 Team, with a value of −3.33. In a ranking where positive numbers reward drivers improving on their own earlier-season standard, a drop to −3.33 signals that Gasly’s last three rounds have been materially slower in points-per-race terms than what came before.
That slide is also reflected in the churn around the top 10. Gasly is one of the three top-10 exits alongside Alexander Albon and Esteban Ocon, and Albon’s own fall is steep: down 9 from 8th to 17th with −0.83 for Williams. These are the kinds of movements that reshape the “form conversation” quickly, because drivers do not merely slip a position or two—they move from being labeled hot to being measured as cooling, in a single three-race window.
The top-10 entry list underlines how unforgiving the cut line is. Gabriel Bortoleto appears as an entrant at 8th on +1.00 for Audi, while Charles Leclerc’s comeback is even more dramatic in positional terms: up 11 places from 21st to 10th for Ferrari, exactly on 0.00.
Leclerc’s 0.00 is the perfect illustration of the ranking’s knife-edge. It says his recent points-per-race matches his earlier-season average—no improvement, no decline—yet that neutrality is still enough to lift him into the top 10 after such a big climb. It also frames the stakes for those just outside: when the boundary is being held by zero, any small swing in either direction can turn a “top-10 form” label into a mid-pack one, or vice versa.
| Driver | Team | Before | After | Δ | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre Gasly | Alpine F1 Team | 4 | 21 | -17 | −3.33 |
| Lando Norris | McLaren | 17 | 2 | +15 | +4.67 |
| Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 21 | 10 | +11 | 0.00 |
Russell’s takeover with +9.17 doesn’t just change the name at the top; it opens a meaningful gap to the rest of the field, with Norris and Hadjar clustered in the mid-+4s behind. The next shifts to watch are the fragile top-10 cut line—currently held by Leclerc at 0.00—and whether recent fallers like Gasly (−3.33) and Albon (−0.83) can stop the slide before the “recent three-round” window defines their season narrative.