Consistency
How repeatable a driver’s clean laps are across a race. Metronomes score high; scruffy, erratic afternoons score low. Traffic, safety cars and pit laps are excluded so only representative laps count.
This season, Yuki Tsunoda leads Consistency: 9.54 against the grid, across 2 rated races. The single best Consistency performance of the year belongs to Lewis Hamilton — 9.8 at the CAN.
How the grid reads on Consistency in 2026
what the season table actually saysAt the top. Yuki Tsunoda leads Consistency on 9.54, 0.21 clear of Max Verstappen on 9.34. 23 drivers have enough running to be rated, and the field runs from 9.54 down to 6.06 — a spread of 3.48 of a grade point.
The speciality. Arvid Lindblad is P9 on Consistency but only P21 on The Index overall — 12 places better here than at everything else put together. On this one measure, this is what they are for.
The soft spot. Fernando Alonso runs the other way: P7 on The Index but only P20 here, 13 places worse. A driver good enough to rank high overall is giving something back on consistency.
Same car, same measure. Team mates share machinery, so the gap between them is as close to a clean read as consistency gets. The tightest pair on the grid is Audi — Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg separated by just 0.06. The widest is McLaren, where Lando Norris is 1.02 ahead of Oscar Piastri.
What this number is not. Consistency is one of nine independent measures, and a driver can lead it while sitting mid-table overall — the season grade in the last column is this metric alone, not a summary of the driver. It is also a rating against the rest of the grid this season, not against history: it says who is doing this best right now, not who has ever done it best.
Season ranking
click a round to sort · each round on its own, Season against the grid| Pos | Driver | MEL | SHA | SUZ | MIA | CAN | MON | ESP | AUT | GBR | SPA | HUN | NED | ITA | Season |
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A race grade rates one afternoon; a season grade rates a driver across the year against the rest of the grid. They answer different questions, so they are not versions of the same number and the season figure is not the row added up. – = not classified that race (insufficient running, or the situation made the metric unmeasurable — the driver is never penalised for it), and never counted towards the season; the championship still accumulates per-race points.