Head-to-head · season 2026

AlexanderAlbonWilliams vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

ALB leads the grade duel 2–1 — across the 14 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#16The Index · 7.36
P20DI championship · 19 pts
0best-of-race
P17official · 5 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Alexander Albon vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Alexander Albon drives for Williams, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Yuki Tsunoda leads on The Index, 7.78 to 7.36 — P13 against P16, a gap of 0.42 of a grade point. Round by round, Alexander Albon has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Alexander Albon's clearest advantage is Race Pace — 8.19 against 7.13. Yuki Tsunoda takes Consistency back the other way, 9.84 to 7.62. They are effectively inseparable on Attack & Defence. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Alexander Albon sits P20 on 19 points to Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P17 and P20.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
6.76 A Overdelivery 7.96
8.19 B Race Pace 7.13
7.62 C Consistency 9.84
7.52 D Attack & Defence 7.55
8.11 E Tyre Management 9.70
6.80 F Qualifying 6.00
8.13 G Race Start 7.47
7.02 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified