F1 Stock Watch: Who Gained and Lost More After Singapore?

The Formula 1 Stock Watch is back on duty!

The main race in the 2026 F1 Singapore Grand Prix didn't give us tons of overtakes (as expected in Marina Bay), but we were still treated to an eventful weekend. Lots of drivers crashed, some drivers exceeded expectations, and others weren't able to live up to the hype.

So, whose stock increased and decreased after the weekend in Singapore? Let's dive right to the most obvious answer.

Sprint pole. Check. Sprint Race. Check. Main qualifying. Check. Main race. Check.

Verstappen's perfect weekend and first career Grand Prix win in Singapore helped him leapfrog Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc for fourth in the Drivers' Standings. 

Need we say more?

The Ferrari driver's P2 finish in Sunday's race was his best result and his first podium since the Belgian Grand Prix in July. Leclerc also finished P3 in the Sprint Race, and was only +0.054 behind Verstappen's fastest time in qualifying.

It was a long wait for a Leclerc podium (by his standards), but the Tifosi are hoping for more.

P5 in the Sprint and P7 in the main race. Lawson scored a total of 10 points when his teammate, Arvid Lindblad, didn't score any. Most importantly, the Kiwi driver increased the Racing Bulls' fifth-place lead to 32 points over Alpine. 

If it wasn't for Verstappen's exploits, Lawson might be our vote for Driver of the Weekend.

Surely, Audi couldn't ask for anything more out of Hulkenberg this weekend. The German driver put Audi on his back, finishing seventh in the Sprint and eighth in the main race. 

Hulkenberg's double points finish in Singapore increased Audi's lead to 11 points over Williams. Unfortunately for Audi, the Haas team scored three more points thanks to Oliver Bearman's P6 finish in the Sprint. Still, Hulkenberg was able to control the damage.

Russell's P19 to P9 drive on Sunday wasn't enough to cover up for his error in Saturday's Sprint Race. The Mercedes driver dipped his wheels in the white line of the kerbs during a wet race, a mistake that sent him spinning and crashing out of the Sprint.

With only two points to show in Singapore, Russell just might lose his second place in the championship to the charging Verstappen.

It was shaping up to be a great weekend for Hamilton, but his strategy in the main race just wouldn't work. After an excellent P2 finish in the Sprint, Hamilton did well in the main qualifying session and started Sunday's race in third.

However, Hamilton fumbled his strategy when he opted not to pit under Virtual Safety Car conditions. With his tyres degraded towards the end, the Ferrari driver couldn't hold off his rivals and settled for sixth place.

A software glitch in Sepang. A "human error" in the first session of Sprint Qualifying in Singapore.

That's two weekends of blunder for the FIA, and they did not do particularly well in addressing them. 

The FIA, like the teams on the grid, has more than a week to regroup before the next race in the United States. By then, they should have emergency procedures in place for these kinds of unacceptable errors.