red bull live standings: where the team and drivers sit right now
Formula1.com’s live standings dated 2026-08-31 show Red Bull fourth in the constructors’ championship on 186 points with no wins, while Max Verstappen sits sixth in the drivers’ table on 112 and is also winless. The damage is already measurable: Red Bull trails Mercedes by 239 points, Ferrari by 152 and McLaren by 77.
That is the reality check. Red Bull’s 2026 story is no longer about title control; it is about limiting the slide before Monza turns the spotlight back on.
| Category | Name | Position | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | Max Verstappen | 6 | 112 | 0 |
| Constructor | Red Bull | 4 | 186 | 0 |
| Driver | Isack Hadjar | 8 | 68 | 0 |
| Driver | Liam Lawson | 9 | 49 | 0 |
the gap to the front three
Formula1.com’s live constructor standings show Mercedes leading on 425 points and 8 wins, Ferrari second on 338, McLaren third on 263, and Red Bull fourth on 186. That leaves Red Bull 239 points off the lead, 152 behind Ferrari and 77 behind McLaren.
| Constructor | Position | Points | Wins | Gap to Red Bull |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedes | 1 | 425 | 8 | 239 |
| Ferrari | 2 | 338 | 0 | 152 |
| McLaren | 3 | 263 | 0 | 77 |
| Red Bull | 4 | 186 | 0 | 0 |
This is the immediate fight now: fourth place, and a 77-point gap to McLaren that Red Bull has to close before it can even think about the top two. It is a damage-limitation race, not a title-control one.
Red Bull’s problem is not one bad weekend, either. The margin to Mercedes is bigger than a race win, and the gaps to Ferrari and McLaren are still large enough to make simple recovery talk sound optimistic.
the driver picture behind the team score
Formula1.com’s live driver standings put Andrea Kimi Antonelli first on 242 points with six wins, with George Russell and Lewis Hamilton tied on 183 in second and third, both ahead of Verstappen. Red Bull’s own picture is thinner than the old benchmark: Verstappen is sixth on 112, while the wider Red Bull system still has Isack Hadjar eighth on 68 and Liam Lawson ninth on 49.
That matters because the points are spread across the group, but the headline team is still not converting that into wins. Verstappen is 130 points behind Antonelli, and the Red Bull camp still has no victories to show for the season.
Russell and Hamilton being tied on 183 only sharpens the picture. They are both ahead of Verstappen, and they are doing it while Mercedes also leads the constructors’ table by a hefty margin.
monza is the next pressure point
Round 13, the Italian Grand Prix, is next on 2026-09-06 at 13:00:00Z at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy. For Red Bull, Monza is not a reset button; it is a check on whether the Austria upgrade talk means anything on the scoreboard.
| Round | Grand Prix | Circuit | City | Date | Start Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Italian Grand Prix | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | Monza | 2026-09-06 | 13:00:00Z |
Formula1.com reported Isack Hadjar said Red Bull “feels like the usual” after the team’s Austria upgrades during Friday practice. That is a useful sign, but it still needs a lap time and a result to matter.
A separate Formula1.com report on Red Bull’s Austria upgrade package quoted Helmut Marko saying gains of “five-tenths of a second in one go” are possible at this stage of the regulations. Monza is where that sort of claim has to show up on the stopwatch, because fourth place and zero wins do not leave much room for rhetoric.
austria upgrades and barcelona fp1 context
Formula1.com also reported a Red Bull driver change for Barcelona FP1 involving the 2025 drivers’ champion, who also serves as test and reserve driver for Racing Bulls. It is another data point in a season where Red Bull is still looking for answers while sitting fourth on 186 points.
The bigger point is still the same. Monza arrives with Red Bull 77 points behind McLaren, 152 behind Ferrari and 239 behind Mercedes, and Verstappen 130 points behind Antonelli. The standings have already turned the pressure dial up.