Four Races. Verstappen Alone Outscored Either Ferrari or McLaren.

Four consecutive podiums delivered 76 points for Max Verstappen, nine more than Ferrari’s two drivers combined and 25 more than McLaren’s pair.

Max Verstappen’s first victory of 2026 completed a run that was already producing a substantial points return. Third at Monza, second in Madrid, second in Baku and first at Sepang: four races, four podiums.

Across that stretch, neither Ferrari nor McLaren matched his total with two cars.

Figures cover Grand Prix race points from September 6 through October 4, 2026, ending with the Bahrain GP at Sepang in Malaysia. None of these four weekends included a Sprint.

How the 76 points came together

Monza started the sequence with 15 points for Verstappen. McLaren did better collectively: Lando Norris finished fourth and Oscar Piastri fifth, bringing home 22. Ferrari scored eight through Lewis Hamilton, while Charles Leclerc retired.

Madrid followed a similar pattern. Verstappen’s second place earned 18 points, one fewer than McLaren’s combined return. Leclerc’s fourth place supplied Ferrari’s 12, with Hamilton retiring.

After two races, McLaren led this comparison with 41 points to Verstappen’s 33. Baku changed that.

Another second place added 18 to Verstappen’s total. McLaren scored nothing: Norris retired and Piastri finished 13th. Ferrari collected 20 through Leclerc and Hamilton, two more than Verstappen earned individually.

Then came Sepang. Verstappen’s victory added 25 points, taking him to 76. Ferrari’s third and fourth places delivered 27, while McLaren’s sixth and ninth brought ten.

One driver against two complete lineups

Ferrari finished the four-race window on 67 points: 36 from Leclerc and 31 from Hamilton. McLaren scored 51, split between Norris’s 29 and Piastri’s 22.

Verstappen’s advantage was nine points over Ferrari and 25 over McLaren. His total includes no contribution from his Red Bull teammates.

These are separate comparisons. Ferrari and McLaren together scored 118 points.

Four podiums made the difference

Verstappen didn’t outscore either team at every race. McLaren beat his individual return at Monza and Madrid; Ferrari did so at Baku and Sepang.

What separated him over the full stretch was a podium every time, with no result worth fewer than 15 points. Ferrari’s retirements and McLaren’s scoreless Baku race also shaped the totals.

Points capture what teams brought home, including the effects of reliability and race circumstances. They don’t establish which car was fastest.

Sepang supplied the victory Verstappen had been missing. The three podiums before it explain why his four-race return was already strong enough to challenge two-car totals.