Haas holds seventh place after eleven rounds of the 2026 season. Oliver Bearman has scored eighteen points, while Esteban Ocon has added three. The team has not scored since the sixth round.
Bearman’s fifth place in China remains Haas‘s best Grand Prix result. He also finished seventh at the opening race in Australia. Those early scores created most of the team’s current total.
Australia and China produced the strongest start
Bearman opened the season with seventh place in Australia. He then earned points during the Chinese Sprint before reaching the final qualifying session. A fifth-place Grand Prix finish completed Haas‘s most productive weekend. The China result gave Bearman his highest Formula 1 finish. He started tenth and gained five positions before the chequered flag. Haas collected another points result in Japan during the early sequence.
Seventeen of Bearman’s eighteen points came from the first two rounds. That split shows how heavily the current total depends on Australia and China. Later races have not matched the same return.
Bearman leads both internal comparisons
Bearman leads Ocon eight to three in qualifying after eleven weekends. He reached the final qualifying session once, during the Chinese Grand Prix. Ocon was eliminated in the opening session five times, while Bearman had three such exits. The race comparison stands at seven finishes ahead for Bearman and four for Ocon. Bearman’s points total is six times larger. Both drivers have also faced different car specifications during parts of the season.
Bearman defended Ocon before the Hungarian Grand Prix. He said inconsistent parts had sometimes prevented an equal comparison. Haas has used race weekends to compare updates across its two cars.
| Season record before the summer break | Result |
|---|---|
| Haas points | 21 |
| Bearman points | 18 |
| Ocon points | 3 |
| Qualifying results | Bearman 8-3 Ocon |
| Race results | Bearman 7-4 Ocon |
Two teammate contacts added to a difficult run
Bearman and Ocon made contact on the opening laps in Monaco and Belgium. The Monaco collision contributed to Bearman’s retirement. Their Spa contact created another setback during the first stint. Bearman also suffered a heavy crash during the Japanese Grand Prix weekend. The recorded impact reached 50G, but he left the car without injury. Repairs added work during an already demanding event.
Starts have caused further problems for both drivers. Lost positions reduced their opportunities to fight near the points. Haas also reported deployment issues and inconsistent rear grip during several weekends.
Five consecutive rounds passed without points
Haas last scored during the sixth round of the championship. The following five Grands Prix produced no top-ten finish. Rivals used that period to increase their advantages in the midfield. Alpine sits forty points ahead in sixth place. Audi and Williams remain closer behind Haas. Seventh position therefore reflects both the early points and the limited totals of nearby teams.
The team has introduced development parts without receiving the same effect at every circuit. Drivers sometimes reported different behaviour between sessions. That variation complicated setup work and direct comparisons.
The remaining season starts at Zandvoort
Formula 1 returns at the Dutch Grand Prix after the summer break. Haas will arrive with the same twenty-one-point total earned before Hungary. Every later result will add to that confirmed figure. Bearman remains responsible for eighteen of those points. Ocon has earned three points after his first eleven weekends with Haas.
Their internal comparisons continue from the existing qualifying and race records.
The early races proved that the VF-26 could reach the final qualifying session and finish fifth. Later events showed a wider performance gap. Zandvoort begins the second part of the schedule after those contrasting results.
The opening three rounds supplied every Haas point
Haas earned points in Australia, China and Japan before the later run began. Bearman collected points in the first two rounds, while Ocon added his total during the early sequence. The following events changed the championship positions without increasing the team’s twenty-one-point total. Bearman’s China weekend remains the clearest statistical peak. He reached the final qualifying session, started tenth and finished fifth. The result followed his seventh place in Australia and gave Haas consecutive Grand Prix scores at the beginning of the season.
Ocon joined Haas after racing for Alpine during the previous part of his career. His three points form the smaller share of the current total. The comparison covers eleven completed race weekends before the Dutch Grand Prix resumes the championship.
Bearman owns most of the current points total
Oliver Bearman has scored eighteen of Haas‘s twenty-one points. Esteban Ocon has added the other three. Bearman also leads their qualifying comparison by eight sessions to three. He has finished ahead in seven of their eleven race comparisons.
The team stands tenth at the break. Alpine occupies ninth with 61 points, forty more than Haas. Bearman’s fifth place in China remains the team’s best result. Haas has not added another point since the sixth round, despite completing the next five race weekends.
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