The Formula 1 season has come to a close, and it’s time to take stock! We’re doing this with Giedo van der Garde: the Viaplay analyst and former F1 driver is going to measure up the drivers for us. Today: the bottom three of the Formula 1 final report 2026. With a shared last place for Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto.
The Bottom Three of 2026:
Jack Doohan & Franco Colapinto: 5.2
There was little honor to be gained at Alpine in the 2025 season. The main culprits were Jack Doohan (pictured above) and Franco Colapinto. They shared the second seat at the French racing team, but it was a case of six of one, half a dozen of the other. Neither scored a single point; Doohan didn’t in the first handful of races and Colapinto didn’t in the remainder of the year either. Van der Garde also noticed this.
“What they showed there was really insufficient,” he believes. “Of course, that car didn’t go anywhere, but still… What Doohan showed was really insufficient. But to be fair: even after Doohan had to make way for Colapinto at Alpine, things didn’t improve. In the end, he also underperformed and so they didn’t make any progress. Both a fail, a 5.2.”
Esteban Ocon: 5.3
Van der Garde is not only critical of the French team Alpine, but also of one of the three French drivers on the grid. In this case, Esteban Ocon. “He really deserves a fail. Ocon has fallen through the ice, has shown little or nothing and is simply not complete.”
The fact that rookie Oliver Bearman, his teammate at Haas, outperformed him, is something Van der Garde also holds against Ocon. Or as he puts it himself: “Ocon really got a beating from Bearman this year. Fail, 5.3.”
