Head-to-head · season 2026

OliverBearmanHaas F1 Team vs MaxVerstappenRed Bull Racing

VER 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
#1The Index · 9.79
P1DI championship · 139 pts
2best-of-race
P6official · 115 pts

Oliver Bearman vs Max Verstappen: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Oliver Bearman drives for Haas F1 Team, Max Verstappen for Red Bull Racing, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Max Verstappen leads on The Index, 9.79 to 8.36 — P1 against P10, a gap of 1.44 of a grade point. Round by round, Max Verstappen has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Oliver Bearman's clearest advantage is Race Start — 7.91 against 7.24. Max Verstappen takes Expected Position back the other way, 10.00 to 8.12. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Max Verstappen sits P1 on 139 points to Oliver Bearman's P6 on 81. Officially they stand P6 and P13.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.12 A Expected Position 10.00
8.01 B Race Pace 9.84
8.12 C Consistency 9.34
9.17 D Attack & Defence 9.83
7.29 E Tyre Management 7.89
9.02 F Qualifying 8.60
7.91 G Race Start 7.24
8.17 I Cleanliness 8.51

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified