Head-to-head · season 2026

AlexanderAlbonWilliams vs GabrielBortoletoAudi

ALB leads the grade duel 8–5 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#16The Index · 7.29
P20DI championship · 17 pts
0best-of-race
P17official · 5 pts
#18The Index · 7.03
P13DI championship · 39 pts
0best-of-race
P14official · 10 pts

Alexander Albon vs Gabriel Bortoleto: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Alexander Albon drives for Williams, Gabriel Bortoleto for Audi, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Alexander Albon leads on The Index, 7.29 to 7.03 — P16 against P18, a gap of 0.26 of a grade point. Round by round, Alexander Albon has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Alexander Albon's clearest advantage is Race Start — 7.99 against 6.44. Gabriel Bortoleto takes Cleanliness back the other way, 8.42 to 7.15. They are effectively inseparable on Consistency, Pit Stop Execution. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Gabriel Bortoleto sits P13 on 39 points to Alexander Albon's P20 on 17. Officially they stand P14 and P17.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.15 B Race Pace 7.60
7.97 C Consistency 7.97
7.34 D Attack & Defence 6.96
8.01 E Tyre Management 6.98
6.69 F Qualifying 7.31
7.99 G Race Start 6.44
7.15 I Cleanliness 8.42

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified