F1 DNF Count 2026: Aston Martin Leads With 17 Retirements

Through 15 rounds of 2026, the F1 DNF count stands at 60 retirements across 330 car entries, about 18% of starts. Aston Martin accounts for 17 of them, which means one of its two cars has failed to finish in 57% of its entries. Mercedes has retired twice. All figures come from GridRaces race results for Rounds 1 to 15 of 2026, using the recorded result status.

That gap between the two ends of the table is bigger than most of the lap-time gaps we spend our evenings arguing about.

Which team has the most DNFs in F1 2026?

Aston Martin, with 17 retirements from 30 entries. Cadillac F1 Team is second with 12. After that the numbers drop sharply: Williams 6, Red Bull 5, Haas F1 Team 4, McLaren 4, then Audi, Ferrari and Alpine on three each, Mercedes on two and RB on one.

Strip out Aston Martin and Cadillac and the picture changes. The other nine teams combined have 31 retirements in 270 entries, about 11%. Add the two outliers back and the grid-wide rate climbs to 18%. In other words, roughly half of this season's retirements come from two of eleven teams, which is a very uneven way to share out bad luck.

The DNF table

The table ranks teams by retirements across the 15 rounds.

Is it one driver or both?

Both, though not equally. Lance Stroll has 11 retirements in 15 starts (Rounds 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15). Fernando Alonso, in the other Aston Martin, has six (Rounds 1, 2, 5, 7, 13 and 15). Together that is 17.

Cadillac shows the same shape. Valtteri Bottas has seven retirements and Sergio Pérez has five. Behind them, Alexander Albon has four for Williams, and Nico Hülkenberg, Oliver Bearman, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris each have three.

Notice what is in that list. Verstappen and Norris, drivers from two of the most successful teams, each have three DNFs in 15 starts. A DNF count is not a measure of how good a driver is. It is a measure of how often the weekend ended early, for whatever reason.

When did the retirements cluster?

The rounds matter as much as the totals. Taking only the nine drivers with three or more DNFs, Round 7 and Round 15 each contain at least five retirements among them: Stroll, Bottas, Alonso, Albon and Hülkenberg in Round 7, and Stroll, Bottas, Alonso, Albon and Norris in Round 15. Round 1 has three, all from the Aston Martin and Cadillac cars.

That pattern is useful, if limited. It says the same names keep turning up in the same bad weekends, which is more consistent with a small number of recurring problems than with random noise. We stop short of calling it a cause, because the status field cannot do that for us.

What do the numbers not tell us?

A great deal. The GridRaces status field records that a car retired, not why. A DNF might be an engine, a crash, a collision that was somebody else's fault, or a precautionary stop. So this is a count of outcomes, not a diagnosis, and we are not going to pretend it is one.

There is also a separate category worth naming. McLaren has three did-not-starts, Audi two, and Williams and RB one each. Those cars never took the green flag, so they are not in the DNF totals, but they cost their teams points all the same.

Is the top of the table just bad luck?

Seventeen retirements in 30 entries is too many to put down to luck alone, and the same goes for Cadillac's 12. What we can say from this data is that Aston Martin and Cadillac are the outliers by a wide margin. What we cannot say is whether the cause is mechanical, operational or incident-related. A reviewer or reader who wants the reason should check team-by-team race reports, because this table cannot supply it.

Mercedes, with two retirements from 30 entries, sits at the other end. That is a different kind of advantage from raw pace, and it compounds across a season: a car that reaches the flag scores points in rounds where its rivals score none. Finishing is a form of speed.

What should you watch at Singapore?

Marina Bay is a street circuit with walls close to the racing line, and it leaves little room for a car that is already struggling. If you want to see how the cars run in practice, open the telemetry view once the weekend starts, and make your Singapore predictions before sprint qualifying. A small suggestion for your picks: a finish is worth more than a hero lap, and the table above says some teams are not guaranteeing one.