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Does Kimi Antonelli lead the drivers' championship at the summer break?

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Kimi Antonelli entered the summer break leading the drivers' championship on 219 points, 50 ahead of Hamilton, after finishing third in the Hungarian Grand Prix on 26 July.

Resolved 26 Jul 2026
How this resolves

The market resolves on the official FIA drivers' championship standings published after the Hungarian Grand Prix on 26 July 2026, the last round before the break. It resolves YES if Antonelli is top of those standings. Post-race penalties applied before the classification is declared count; later appeals do not reopen it. If that source has not published in time, Formula1.com standings and Sky Sports F1 settle it.

The pattern behind it

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All four of the last four modern regulation resets — 1998, 2009, 2014 and 2022 — ended with the driver whose team mastered the new rules as champion, and in three of them the lead narrowed sharply on the way. That is the full record of rulebook resets since 1998. The 2009 case is the caution: Button's early cushion nearly evaporated, and his title was saved by the points already banked.

Formula 1 rewrites its rules roughly once every ten years. We looked at the four big rule changes since 1998 and asked one thing: was the driver whose team best understood the new rules still in front when the season ended, however far his lead fell on the way?