How often do the stewards change an F1 result? Every race since 2025

The provisional result is not the result

When a Formula 1 race ends, the FIA first publishes a provisional classification. The final classification follows later - usually within hours, occasionally days later after a right of review - once the stewards have finished their investigations and the cars have been through the post-race technical checks. Anything decided in between changes the official result.

We compared those two documents for every Grand Prix since the start of 2025, and for every sprint of 2026. The provisional classification already includes penalties applied during the race, and sometimes ones handed out just after it, so everything counted here is a change made after the provisional result was published.

2025: the year of the disqualifications

Five of the 24 Grands Prix changed after the provisional result, and the big ones were all technical.

• Chinese GP - three cars disqualified at once: Charles Leclerc (P5) and Pierre Gasly (P11) for running underweight, Lewis Hamilton (P6) for excessive wear on the floor plank. Fifteen drivers ended up in a different position from their provisional one. (Leclerc, Hamilton, Gasly)
• Las Vegas GP - both McLarens disqualified for plank wear: Lando Norris from second, Oscar Piastri from fourth. George Russell moved up to second and Kimi Antonelli to third. (Norris, Piastri)
• Bahrain GP - Nico Hülkenberg disqualified from 13th, also for plank wear (decision).
• Australian GP - a penalty taken away rather than added. After a right of review, Kimi Antonelli's 5-second unsafe-release penalty was dropped, lifting him from fifth to fourth ahead of Alex Albon (decision).
• Singapore GP - Lewis Hamilton was given 5 seconds after the race for repeatedly leaving the track and dropped from seventh to eighth (decision).

2026: penalties after the race, and one reversal

So far 6 of the 19 Grands Prix have changed - a higher rate than 2025, but with no disqualification. Five came purely from penalties added after the provisional result; in the sixth, Monaco, one penalty was added and two were rescinded.

• Monaco GP - the only change that reached the podium this year, and it came five days late. Pierre Gasly had been given two 5-second penalties for pit-lane speeding (first, second) and classified seventh. After a right of review requested by Alpine (decision), the stewards withdrew them (decision) and the revised classification put him third (revised classification). Separately, Sergio Pérez lost the last point: 10 seconds after the race for being out of position at a restart, P10 to P15 (decision). Eleven drivers moved in all.
• Mexico City GP - eleven drivers moved here too. Oscar Piastri got 10 seconds for a collision (P7 to P13); Franco Colapinto (P8 to P15) and Pierre Gasly (P10 to P17) were both penalised for not slowing under yellow flags, Gasly with a stop-and-go converted into 30 seconds. (Piastri, Colapinto, Gasly)
• British GP - Carlos Sainz was given a penalty lap for overtaking the safety car and fell from 12th to 17th (decision).
• Miami GP - Charles Leclerc received a drive-through after the race, turned into 20 seconds, for repeatedly leaving the track without a justifiable reason: P6 to P8 (decision).
• Barcelona-Catalunya GP - Franco Colapinto, 10 seconds for not slowing for yellow flags, P8 to P10 (decision).
• Azerbaijan GP - Gabriel Bortoleto, 10 seconds for overtaking under yellow flags, P13 to P15 (decision).

Two of the six 2026 sprints changed as well: Gabriel Bortoleto was disqualified from 11th in Miami over engine intake air pressure (decision), and Nico Hülkenberg got 5 seconds after the British sprint for gaining an advantage off track (decision).

What the numbers say

The car checks did the most damage. Six cars were disqualified across three 2025 races, every one of them found in post-race scrutineering - worn floor planks and underweight cars. A disqualification moves everyone behind up a place, which is why China and Las Vegas reshuffled fifteen and sixteen drivers.

In 2026 the late changes come from the stewards' room. Five of the six came purely from penalties added after the provisional result, and yellow-flag offences account for four of those penalties, in three of the races. Penalties can also come off: in Australia 2025 and Monaco 2026 a right of review moved a driver back up.

The top is safe, the midfield is not. No winner changed in 43 races and only two podiums did. But eight races ended with a different set of points scorers, or the same scorers in a different order - exactly where a single point decides championship places for the midfield teams.

If you go by the provisional result, you will be wrong somewhere in the classification about one race in four, and wrong about the points in nearly one in five. That is the gap this site exists to close: every race result here is shown after the stewards are done, and the corrected championship adds up what those changes did to the standings.

How we counted

• For every Grand Prix from the 2025 Australian GP to the 2026 Mexico City GP (all 19 run in 2026 so far), and every 2026 sprint, we compared the FIA's provisional classification with its final classification - or, where one was issued, the revised classification. A result counts as changed if any driver ended in a different position, including drivers removed from the results.
• Penalties already in the provisional classification are not counted. Grid penalties for the next race, penalty points, reprimands and fines do not change a classification, so they are not counted either.
• The 2025 sprints are left out: we do not hold their provisional classifications, so there is nothing to compare. The penalty pages for each case link to the original FIA document.

Want the plain-English version of each penalty type? See F1 penalties explained, including what a DSQ means.