POWER RANKINGS: Who impressed our judges at the Canadian Grand Prix?

Kimi Antonelli made it four victories in a row with another triumph at the Canadian Grand Prix. But who else impressed our judges in Montreal? Check out the latest scores and overall leaderboard below...

How it works

• Our five-judge panel assess each driver after every Grand Prix and score them out of 10 according to their performance across the weekend – taking machinery out of the equation
• Our experts’ scores are then averaged out to produce a race score – with those scores then tallied up across the season on our overall Power Rankings Leaderboard (at the bottom of the page)

Lewis Hamilton cut a much happier figure throughout the Canadian Grand Prix weekend – the seven-time World Champion looking at one with his Ferrari from the outset after making a point of avoiding the team’s simulator in the lead up to the event. He started ahead of team mate Charles Leclerc for both races, and ultimately took his best Grand Prix result in red with a fine P2 finish.

Franco Colapinto arrived in Montreal off the back of an eye-catching Miami weekend, and the Argentinian youngster continued his positive trajectory around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. After narrowly missing out on a point in the Sprint, he put his Alpine in Q3 and progressed from 10th to sixth during the Grand Prix, marking his best result in F1 so far.

Max Verstappen and Red Bull were left searching for answers to plenty of questions after Sprint Qualifying and the Sprint – their car struggling to make an impression on the front-running group. McLaren’s backfiring intermediate tyre gamble opened the door in the Grand Prix, though, and the typically determined Dutchman took advantage to rise to the podium places.

Kimi Antonelli enjoyed a significant advantage over Mercedes team mate George Russell at the Miami International Autodrome, but the internal fight closed up again in Canada. That led to a weekend of the Silver Arrows going wheel-to-wheel, with Antonelli – who appeared to be marginally more comfortable in race trim – taking the spoils after Russell’s painful technical-related retirement.

Russell needed a strong Canadian Grand Prix weekend after losing out to Antonelli in China, Japan and Miami, and he started well by topping Sprint Qualifying, the Sprint and Qualifying. However, the Briton simply could not shake off his young team mate in the Grand Prix during an epic duel, prompting a series of lock-ups as he came under pressure, and then had to watch on in disbelief after his car ground to a halt.

Arvid Lindblad was one of the stars of the midfield teams at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, securing eighth in Sprint Qualifying, converting that into the final point in the Sprint, and backing it up with another Q3 showing for the Grand Prix itself. A gearbox issue sadly prevented him from starting the main event, but his performance did not go unnoticed.

After earning the struggling Williams team some much-needed points in China and Miami, Carlos Sainz delivered again with a strong drive to ninth position on Sunday afternoon. It was all the more impressive given the fact that he was one of a handful of drivers to start the race on intermediate tyres, rather than the more favourable slicks.

Liam Lawson’s weekend started miserably with a car failure in FP1, which also kept him out of Sprint Qualifying. Still very much on the back foot, he claimed a solid 12th in the main Qualifying session, before making the most of drama around him to progress to seventh in the race and top up Racing Bulls’ points tally.

On paper, Isack Hadjar scored his best result since stepping up to Red Bull with a P5 finish in Canada, but it was far from straightforward for the Frenchman on race day. He picked up a penalty for some aggressive defending against Leclerc’s Ferrari, and another for failing to slow sufficiently under yellow flags. There was enough in hand over the chasing pack, though, to log that solid haul of points.

Haas endured a difficult Montreal weekend despite bringing a batch of new parts for their car. After a fruitless Sprint Qualifying, Sprint race and Qualifying session, the team were finally given something to smile about via Ollie Bearman’s rise from 16th on the grid to 10th – earning a valuable point.

Missing out

Just missing out on the top 10 are McLaren’s Lando Norris (who made his mark in the Sprint but dropped back during the main event amid that call to start on intermediate tyres, and then retired), Fernando Alonso (who led Aston Martin’s charge before being sidelined early in the Grand Prix by a seat problem), and Cadillac’s Sergio Perez (who showed encouraging pace with the 2026 newcomers before a suspension failure struck).