Head-to-head · season 2026

OliverBearmanHaas F1 Team vs ValtteriBottasCadillac

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

VS
#10The Index · 8.36
P6DI championship · 81 pts
2best-of-race
P13official · 17 pts
#19The Index · 6.86
P19DI championship · 19 pts
0best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts

Oliver Bearman vs Valtteri Bottas: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Oliver Bearman drives for Haas F1 Team, Valtteri Bottas for Cadillac, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Oliver Bearman leads on The Index, 8.36 to 6.86 — P10 against P19, a gap of 1.50 of a grade point. Round by round, Oliver Bearman has out-driven the other in 7 of 13 races where both were graded. Oliver Bearman's clearest advantage is Attack & Defence — 9.17 against 6.26. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Oliver Bearman sits P6 on 81 points to Valtteri Bottas's P19 on 19. Officially they stand P13 and P21.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.01 B Race Pace 7.59
8.12 C Consistency 6.98
9.17 D Attack & Defence 6.26
7.29 E Tyre Management 6.50
9.02 F Qualifying 8.09
7.91 G Race Start 7.06
8.17 I Cleanliness 7.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified