F1 World Championship points after the 2022 Japanese GP

Verstappen’s title was confirmed when Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was penalized five seconds soon after the race concluded, which dropped him from second place to third.

Who is leading the 2022 F1 World Championship Drivers' points?

Red Bull Racing’s two-time champion Verstappen scored 25 points at Suzuka, compared to Leclerc’s 15 rather than 18. That meant Verstappen’s lead in the World Championship is 113 points and cannot be overhauled in the remaining four races.

The penalty also meant that Verstappen’s Red Bull Racing teammate Sergio Perez moves ahead of Leclerc into second in the championship.

Mercedes’ George Russell could only finish eighth but that increased his gap to Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who crashed out soon after the initial start in Japan, to five points in fourth.

Lewis Hamilton finished fifth and is now 22 points behind Sainz.

Nicholas Latifi’s first points of the season for ninth place in his Williams means that Nico Hulkenberg is the only driver to have started a race this year to be on zero points.

2022 F1 World Championship standings for Drivers

Cla	Driver	Points	Grands Prix
Cla	Driver	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
1	Max Verstappen	366	-	25	-	34	26	25	15	25	25	6	27	25	25	26	26	25	6	25
2	Sergio Pérez	253	-	12	18	24	12	19	25	19	-	18	4	12	10	18	10	9	25	18
3	Charles Leclerc	252	26	19	26	15	18	-	12	-	10	12	32	-	8	8	15	18	18	15
4	George Russell	207	12	10	15	12	10	15	10	15	12	-	17	15	15	12	18	15	-	4
5	Carlos Sainz Jr.	202	18	15	-	5	15	12	18	-	19	25	6	11	12	15	4	12	15	-
6	Lewis Hamilton	180	15	1	12	-	8	10	4	12	15	16	16	18	19	-	12	10	2	10
7	Lando Norris	101	-	6	10	19	-	4	9	2	-	8	6	6	6	-	6	6	12	1
8	Esteban Ocon	78	6	8	6	-	4	6	-	1	8	-	13	4	2	6	2	-	-	12
9	Fernando Alonso	65	2	-	-	-	-	2	6	6	2	10	1	8	4	10	8	-	-	6
10	Valtteri Bottas	46	8	-	4	12	6	8	2	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	Sebastian Vettel	32			-	4	-	-	1	8	-	2	-	-	1	4	-	-	4	8
12	Daniel Ricciardo	29	-	-	8	3	-	-	-	4	-	-	2	2	-	-	-	-	10	-
13	Pierre Gasly	23	-	4	2	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	4	1	-
14	Kevin Magnussen	22	10	2	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	1	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
15	Lance Stroll	13	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	8	-
16	Mick Schumacher	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
17	Yuki Tsunoda	11	4	-	-	6	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
18	Zhou Guanyu	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
19	Alexander Albon	4	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
20	Nicholas Latifi	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
21	Nyck de Vries	2																2
22	Nico Hülkenberg	0	-	-

Who is leading the 2022 F1 World Championship Constructors' points?

In the constructors’ standings, Red Bull’s 43-point haul extended its lead over Ferrari to 165.

In the battle for second, Ferrari again outscored Mercedes, this time by one point, and the gap is out to 67.

Alpine scored the second-best points haul at Suzuka, grabbing back fourth place in the standings from McLaren after its Singapore disaster. Alpine is now 13 ahead of McLaren, which could only salvage one point in Japan.

Sebastian Vettel’s sixth place finish, thanks to an early change to intermediate tyres, puts Aston Martin Racing 11 points clear of Haas in seventh.

Williams registered for the fifth time this season, but remains firmly anchored to the bottom of the standings, 26 points behind AlphaTauri.

2022 F1 World Championship standings for Constructors

Cla	Constructor	Points	Grands Prix
Cla	Constructor	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
1	Red Bull	619	-	37	18	58	38	44	40	44	25	24	31	37	35	44	36	34	31	43
2	Ferrari	454	44	34	26	20	33	12	30	-	29	37	38	11	20	23	19	30	33	15
3	Mercedes	387	27	11	27	12	18	25	14	27	27	16	33	33	34	12	30	25	2	14
4	Alpine/Renault	143	8	8	6	-	4	8	6	7	10	10	14	12	6	16	10	-	-	18
5	McLaren/Mercedes	130	-	6	18	22	-	4	9	6	-	8	8	8	6	-	6	6	22	1
6	Alfa Romeo/Ferrari	52	9	-	4	12	6	8	2	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
7	Aston Martin/Mercedes	45	-	-	-	5	1	-	1	8	1	2	-	1	1	4	1	-	12	8
8	Haas/Ferrari	34	10	2	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	5	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	AlphaTauri/Red Bull	34	4	4	2	6	-	1	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	4	1	-
10	Williams/Mercedes	8	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	2