Head-to-head · season 2026

KimiAntonelliMercedes vs LanceStrollAston Martin

ANT leads the grade duel 11–2 — 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
#15The Index · 7.31
P18DI championship · 24 pts
0best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts

Kimi Antonelli vs Lance Stroll: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Kimi Antonelli drives for Mercedes, Lance Stroll for Aston Martin, 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 7.31 — P2 against P15, a gap of 2.18 of a grade point. Round by round, Kimi Antonelli has out-driven the other in 11 of 13 races where both were graded. Kimi Antonelli's clearest advantage is Qualifying — 8.75 against 6.29. Lance Stroll takes Pit Stop Execution back the other way, 8.83 to 8.10. 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 Lance Stroll's P18 on 24. Officially they stand P1 and P21.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
9.60 B Race Pace 8.28
9.30 C Consistency 6.99
8.81 D Attack & Defence 7.72
9.14 E Tyre Management 8.12
8.75 F Qualifying 6.29
7.37 G Race Start 7.84
7.84 I Cleanliness 6.53

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified