Head-to-head · season 2026

GabrielBortoletoAudi vs FrancoColapintoAlpine

BOR leads the grade duel 10–3 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#18The Index · 7.03
P13DI championship · 39 pts
0best-of-race
P14official · 10 pts
#22The Index · 6.59
P14DI championship · 33 pts
0best-of-race
P12official · 21 pts

Gabriel Bortoleto vs Franco Colapinto: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Gabriel Bortoleto drives for Audi, Franco Colapinto for Alpine, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Gabriel Bortoleto leads on The Index, 7.03 to 6.59 — P18 against P22, a gap of 0.44 of a grade point. Round by round, Gabriel Bortoleto has out-driven the other in 10 of 13 races where both were graded. Gabriel Bortoleto's clearest advantage is Pit Stop Execution — 8.12 against 7.39. Franco Colapinto takes Race Start back the other way, 8.70 to 6.44. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Gabriel Bortoleto sits P13 on 39 points to Franco Colapinto's P14 on 33. Officially they stand P14 and P12.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.60 B Race Pace 7.24
7.97 C Consistency 7.39
6.96 D Attack & Defence 8.21
6.98 E Tyre Management 7.79
7.31 F Qualifying 6.75
6.44 G Race Start 8.70
8.42 I Cleanliness 7.86

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified