F1 2026 standings after 20 of 23 rounds - Mercedes clinch the constructors' title in São Paulo as Norris wins and Verstappen comes from 21st to second

Lando Norris won the São Paulo Grand Prix from first on the grid, his third win of the season after rounds 11 and 12. Max Verstappen started twenty-first and finished second, and his Red Bull team-mate Isack Hadjar was third from fifth, his third podium of the season. George Russell came from seventh to fourth and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, second on the grid, was fifth. Oscar Piastri was sixth from tenth and Liam Lawson, third on the grid, seventh. Charles Leclerc came from fourteenth to eighth and Lewis Hamilton from twentieth to ninth, and Nico Hülkenberg took the last point in tenth from fourth. Twenty cars were classified. Lance Stroll retired with a battery problem and Valtteri Bottas did not start, with a wheel nut problem. Haas ran Rafael Câmara, in his first race of the season, and he started eleventh and finished twentieth.

Every number below is computed from results through round 20, the São Paulo Grand Prix at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace on Sunday, November 8 (November 9 in Korea). Twenty of twenty-three rounds are done and all six sprints have been run. Three grands prix remain and no sprints, which leaves 75 points still available to any driver and 129 to any team, 25 and 43 a race. The results come from F1DB, the open database our F1 tables are built from, which published its release with São Paulo on November 9.

Our Mexico City piece said Mercedes would settle the constructors' title in São Paulo if it took 4 or more points than Ferrari there. It took 16 more. Russell's 12 and Antonelli's 10 made 22 for Mercedes, while Leclerc's 4 and Hamilton's 2 made 6 for Ferrari. Mercedes is on 652 and Ferrari on 510, so the lead grew from 126 to 142, more than the 129 left. Ferrari's ceiling is now 639, its 510 plus 129, which is 13 short of Mercedes' 652, and Mercedes' clinch number has gone from 47 to 0. Because the lead is clear of what remains rather than level with it, the win countback F1 uses for ties does not come into it. Mercedes has twelve of the twenty wins this season, nine for Antonelli and three for Russell. With Antonelli's drivers' title settled in Mexico City, both 2026 championships now belong to Mercedes.

In the drivers' table Antonelli, champion since Mexico City, is on 390 with nine wins. Verstappen's 18 points took him to 279, 111 back, and with 75 left his ceiling is 354. Behind them the order moved again. Russell passed Hamilton for third, 262 to 261, Leclerc is fifth on 249 and Norris's 25 points took him to 246, three behind Leclerc and still sixth. Those five, from Verstappen's 279 to Norris's 246, are covered by 33 points with 75 still to be scored, so second place is open. Piastri is seventh on 152 and Hadjar eighth on 122.

Further down the constructors' table, Red Bull and McLaren each scored 33, Red Bull from Verstappen's 18 and Hadjar's 15 and McLaren from Norris's 25 and Piastri's 8. Red Bull is third on 415 and McLaren fourth on 398, the same 17 apart as after Mexico City. Their ceilings, 544 and 527, are both above Ferrari's 510, so second place in the constructors' table is not settled either. Lawson's 6 took the Racing Bulls to 114 and Hülkenberg's 1 took Audi to 28. Alpine on 69, Haas on 31, Williams on 12, Aston Martin on 7 and Cadillac on 0 did not score.

Las Vegas, round 21, starts at 04:00 UTC on November 22, which is 1:00 pm on Sunday, November 22 in Korea. Qatar follows at 1:00 am on November 30 in Korea and Abu Dhabi closes the season at 10:00 pm on December 6. With both titles decided, no clinch number is left to watch there. After Las Vegas 50 points will remain for a driver and 86 for a team, and the open questions are the places behind the champions.

How to read these numbers. A clinch or magic number is the minimum a driver or team still has to score to be certain of the title even if every rival takes everything left on the table. A tragic number is its mirror, the point at which the title becomes impossible even if you take everything left yourself; in a points championship it is simply the gap measured against what remains, now 75 for a driver and 129 for a team. A clinch has to finish clear of the nearest rival's ceiling, not level with it, while a chaser whose ceiling exactly equals the leader's total is still listed as alive. F1 itself breaks a points tie on wins, and we do not model that countback, so our clinch can trail an official announcement by a round, and F1 rounds are a week or more apart. The live tables are at, every clinch number at, the full schedule at, each team's and driver's own numbers at and, and the method at.