Head-to-head · season 2026

OliverBearmanHaas F1 Team vs CarlosSainzWilliams

SAI leads the grade duel 8–5 — 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
#9The Index · 8.51
P9DI championship · 74 pts
0best-of-race
P15official · 6 pts

Oliver Bearman vs Carlos Sainz: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Oliver Bearman drives for Haas F1 Team, Carlos Sainz for Williams, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Carlos Sainz leads on The Index, 8.51 to 8.36 — P9 against P10, a gap of 0.15 of a grade point. Round by round, Carlos Sainz has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Oliver Bearman's clearest advantage is Attack & Defence — 9.17 against 6.87. Carlos Sainz takes Race Start back the other way, 9.04 to 7.91. They are effectively inseparable on Expected Position. 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 Carlos Sainz's P9 on 74. Officially they stand P13 and P15.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.01 B Race Pace 8.59
8.12 C Consistency 7.66
9.17 D Attack & Defence 6.87
7.29 E Tyre Management 8.04
9.02 F Qualifying 9.32
7.91 G Race Start 9.04
8.17 I Cleanliness 7.58

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified