Head-to-head · season 2026

KimiAntonelliMercedes vs OliverBearmanHaas F1 Team

ANT leads the grade duel 7–6 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#2The Index · 9.50
P3DI championship · 118 pts
2best-of-race
P1official · 241 pts
#10The Index · 8.36
P6DI championship · 81 pts
2best-of-race
P13official · 17 pts

Kimi Antonelli vs Oliver Bearman: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Kimi Antonelli drives for Mercedes, Oliver Bearman for Haas F1 Team, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Kimi Antonelli leads on The Index, 9.50 to 8.36 — P2 against P10, a gap of 1.14 of a grade point. Round by round, Kimi Antonelli has out-driven the other in 7 of 13 races where both were graded. Kimi Antonelli's clearest advantage is Tyre Management — 9.14 against 7.29. Oliver Bearman takes Race Start back the other way, 7.91 to 7.37. They are effectively inseparable on Pit Stop Execution. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Kimi Antonelli sits P3 on 118 points to Oliver Bearman's P6 on 81. Officially they stand P1 and P13.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
9.60 B Race Pace 8.01
9.30 C Consistency 8.12
8.81 D Attack & Defence 9.17
9.14 E Tyre Management 7.29
8.75 F Qualifying 9.02
7.37 G Race Start 7.91
7.84 I Cleanliness 8.17

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified