Head-to-head · season 2026

OliverBearmanHaas F1 Team vs LewisHamiltonFerrari

HAM leads the grade duel 9–4 — 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
#5The Index · 8.92
P5DI championship · 95 pts
2best-of-race
P2official · 171 pts

Oliver Bearman vs Lewis Hamilton: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Oliver Bearman drives for Haas F1 Team, Lewis Hamilton for Ferrari, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Lewis Hamilton leads on The Index, 8.92 to 8.36 — P5 against P10, a gap of 0.57 of a grade point. Round by round, Lewis Hamilton has out-driven the other in 9 of 13 races where both were graded. Oliver Bearman's clearest advantage is Attack & Defence — 9.17 against 7.82. Lewis Hamilton takes Race Pace back the other way, 9.26 to 8.01. They are effectively inseparable on Consistency, Race Start, Pit Stop Execution. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Lewis Hamilton sits P5 on 95 points to Oliver Bearman's P6 on 81. Officially they stand P2 and P13.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.01 B Race Pace 9.26
8.12 C Consistency 8.15
9.17 D Attack & Defence 7.82
7.29 E Tyre Management 6.89
9.02 F Qualifying 7.86
7.91 G Race Start 8.04
8.17 I Cleanliness 8.45

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified