48 Podium Places. Seven Teams Shut Out. Can Singapore Break the Pattern?

Four teams have claimed every Grand Prix podium finish this season, but the closest challenges show why the other seven haven’t all faced the same gap.

Sixteen Grands Prix have offered 48 podium places. Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull and McLaren have taken every one.

Mercedes leads with 21. Ferrari and Red Bull have ten each, while McLaren has seven. That leaves Racing Bulls, Alpine, Haas, Audi, Williams, Aston Martin and Cadillac without a Grand Prix podium.

Singapore offers the next opportunity. But understanding the barrier means looking beyond the totals.

Figures cover final Grand Prix classifications through the Bahrain GP at Sepang on October 4, 2026. Sprints are excluded. Each first-, second- and third-place finish counts as one podium place.

Alpine reached third, then lost it

Pierre Gasly’s Monaco result is the most significant qualification to the story.

He crossed the line third, but two five-second pit-lane speeding penalties dropped him to seventh. Alpine successfully challenged those penalties through a Right of Review, temporarily restoring his podium.

McLaren and Red Bull appealed. The FIA International Court of Appeal reinstated both penalties, returning Isack Hadjar to third and Gasly to seventh in the final classification.

Alpine had delivered a third-place finish on the road. It doesn’t have one in the results used for this count.

Similar positions, different distances

Racing Bulls and Haas have both reached fifth.

Liam Lawson finished fifth at Monaco, 3.159 seconds behind Hadjar’s classified third place, with Oscar Piastri between them. Oliver Bearman’s fifth in China came 32.001 seconds behind third-placed Lewis Hamilton.

Those are finishing gaps, not proof that either driver had a podium within reach. They show why the same position can represent very different races.

Even a tiny gap needs context. Lawson finished sixth at Silverstone, just 1.251 seconds behind Hamilton in third. But that race ended behind the Safety Car after Max Verstappen’s late crash. The compressed finishing order didn’t give Lawson an opportunity to attack.

Singapore still requires a way past

Seven teams are chasing three places against eight cars from the four teams that have taken every podium so far.

Sepang showed how difficult that remains. Rain and interruptions disrupted the race, yet Verstappen, Kimi Antonelli and Hamilton filled the podium. Lawson led the other seven teams home in seventh.

Singapore can create opportunities through qualifying, strategy and race circumstances. It doesn’t guarantee that one will reach a team outside the leading four.

The test is whether a challenger can put itself in position to capitalize. Sixteen races have shown that disruption alone hasn’t been enough.