Williams and the battle to dominate the middle zone of F1
The fight in the half table of the F1 builders championship promise to be intense until the end of the season.
Although the Constructors Championship of this season in Formula 1 will be again for McLarenthe fight under first place is intense direction to the final stretch of the calendar, because Mercedes, Ferrari and now Red Bull They fight for that second place, while behind it is Williamslike the only one in the 100 points (101), and follow him Racing Bulls, Aston Martin and Kick Sauberthe three separated by just 17 units.
That battle in the half table, from the fifth site and to the eighth will have a special flavor in the last seven dates of the campaign, not only because each team aspires to finish as high as possible, but because the difference between staying in a step or in another could be around 10 million dollars in the budget next year, when a transformation arrives into the serial.
The previous cycle, the best in the rest was Aston Martin that was fifth, followed by Alpine, who has taken several steps back in this 2025 and is in the background, while the seventh was Haas, which is now ninth; Then there were RB, Williams and Kick Sauber, who clearly corrected the course of their projects.
This is the situation in that central part of the classification, before the Singapore Grand Prix of the weekend:
5th Williams: 101 points
The historic squad seems finally to confirm its return to the elite of the highest category, after almost a decade of suffering and celebrated it in style with a podium of the Spanish pilot Carlos Sainz In Azerbaijan, which drives Grove’s for the future with the illusion of even winning again.
Williams celebrated his last title, the ninth in his history, in 1997 and from there the problems began, until they played in 2020, when he stayed at zero and was sold to an American investment group; In 2023 he arrived from Mercedes James Vowles as director and has turned the page.
With the 101 points obtained so far, the British already have more than all the accumulated between 2018 and 2024 (84), with two consolidated flyers in the Great Circus, such as the Thai Alex Albonwhich contributes 70 of those units and Sainz, the cherry in the company’s plan after leaving Ferrari, who after a complicated start managed to be third in Baku.
Undoubtedly, Williams is back, with a serious project headed by Vowles, with Pat Fry as a designer and a reliable Mercedes engine, in addition to two proven drivers, which expects it to be so as not to lag behind with the arrival of the new regulation in 2026, where they yearn to compete a little higher, although they must ensure this fifth position.
6th Racing Bulls: 72 points
Red Bull’s second team seemed to suffer this year again, especially because after just two dates he ran out of his emblem pilot, Japanese Yuki Tsunodapromoted to the company’s first team, and half of the calendar also lost its director, Laurent Mekies, who had arrived in 2024, but followed the same path as the Asian.
The responsibility then fell to Alan remained, who was the career director in the organization chart and starting the Belgium Grand Prix has managed what the Neo Zealand Liam Lawsonremoved from Red Bull and by the French rookie, Isack hadjarone of the great revelations of the serial.
After the holidays in this 2025, it was the Frenchman who gave the squad, the sixth in his history (although the first with this denomination), being third in the Netherlands, the first celebration with champagne since his compatriot Pierre Gasly He did it in Azerbaijan 2021 (third).
Hadjar has contributed 39 points, but Lawson has also contributed 30 and has shown that he belongs to the highest category with great performances, such as the recent fifth place in Baku, all this has caused the brand to have its greatest harvest since that 2021 (142) and has given an example of solidity, despite the experienced circumstances.
7th Aston Martin: 62 points
The disappointment of this half -table in F1 has been Aston Martin, which seemed to rise, especially after a great 2023 with eight podium Adrian Newey accumulate 32 units less than in the entire previous season.
The Lawrence Stroll project has been short of expectations and is not even a management issue, because your child Throw has two goals more than Spanish Fernando Alonso (32 by 30), but the car has not lived up and has been surpassed by Williams and even Racing Bulls models.
Only three times (from 17), both cars sneaked in the Top-10 on Sunday, but in the two most recent events they have fought at the end of the grid with the Alpine, with which they fought in 2024, but for being the best in the rest.
All in the company seem to concentrate on 2026, when they will have a new engine supplier, because they will leave Mercedes to be the only Honda client, Newey can build a fair -thought car for that power plant and Alonso’s possible farewell could return to the vehicle to the results of the beginning of 2023.
8th Kick Sauber: 55 points
Sauber’s farewell of the Great Circus before Audi’s total landing in the garage by 2026 has been more positive than expected and can also boast a podium, so longed for by the German Nico Hülkenberg In Silverstone, which ended with a personal wait for 239 major awards to celebrate the first.
The project joined Jonathan Wheatley and Mattia Binotto as heads, which has meant a growth in the factory, which had been last in 2024, with just four units, all obtained in the penultimate career of the calendar, in Qatar and now adds 55 to pass Aston Martin.
In the cars, the duo of Hülkenberg and the Brazilian debutante Gabriel Bortoleto He has given great results, after a complicated start that was transformed from Spain, when Nico was fifth, then both entered the Top-10 in Austria and after the third place of Hulk in Britain, the South American added in Belgium, Hungary and Italy.
The difference of 51 points so far between one campaign and the other, demonstrates that the Plan drawn by Audi for its arrival at Formula 1 has been correct, with adequate managers, two competitive pilots and the dream that the own engines in 2026 maintain the rhythm of the Ferrari so far.
It is the battle for that fifth position in the table, which can mean up to $ 120 million in reward, about 30 more than ending in eighth, so the teams will not discard the remainder of the championship to focus on 2026, because some podium in this final stretch would be a great impulse for the budget of next year and would make the difference with respect to the others involved in the dispute.
