Head-to-head · season 2026

FernandoAlonsoAston Martin vs SergioPerezCadillac

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

VS
#7The Index · 8.73
P10DI championship · 73 pts
0best-of-race
P18official · 3 pts
#11The Index · 8.07
P11DI championship · 49 pts
1best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts

Fernando Alonso vs Sergio Perez: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Fernando Alonso drives for Aston Martin, Sergio Perez for Cadillac, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Fernando Alonso leads on The Index, 8.73 to 8.07 — P7 against P11, a gap of 0.66 of a grade point. Round by round, Fernando Alonso has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Fernando Alonso's clearest advantage is Cleanliness — 8.03 against 6.26. Sergio Perez takes Attack & Defence back the other way, 8.17 to 6.36. They are effectively inseparable on Race Pace, Pit Stop Execution. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Fernando Alonso sits P10 on 73 points to Sergio Perez's P11 on 49. Officially they stand P18 and P21.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.97 B Race Pace 8.95
7.08 C Consistency 6.06
6.36 D Attack & Defence 8.17
8.68 E Tyre Management 8.34
9.71 F Qualifying 7.95
8.12 G Race Start 7.90
8.03 I Cleanliness 6.26

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified