Racing Bulls on course for first fifth-place finish as Lawson reaches 89 points

Racing Bulls is on course for its first fifth-place finish in the constructors’ championship, a position the team never reached as Toro Rosso or AlphaTauri. Liam Lawson has scored 89 points in 2026, 51 more than rookie team-mate Arvid Lindblad.

Counting the points as they were awarded, Lawson’s 89-point 2026 season is the second-highest single-season total by a driver in the Toro Rosso–AlphaTauri–Racing Bulls lineage, behind Pierre Gasly’s 110 in 2021. The comparison spans different scoring systems: Sebastian Vettel’s 35 points in 2008 would convert to 93 under today’s system.

Of Lawson’s 89 points, 75 came with Racing Bulls; the other 14 came during his three-race spell at Red Bull as Isack Hadjar’s injury replacement. Lawson finished seventh in four of the last five Grands Prix. Racing Bulls and Alpine have contested fifth all season. Alpine has 69 points overall, with only one since the Spanish Grand Prix. Lawson’s 75 points for Racing Bulls alone would put a hypothetical Lawson entry ahead of Alpine.