Head-to-head · season 2026

GabrielBortoletoAudi vs LewisHamiltonFerrari

HAM leads the grade duel 8–5 — 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
#5The Index · 8.92
P5DI championship · 95 pts
2best-of-race
P2official · 171 pts

Gabriel Bortoleto vs Lewis Hamilton: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Gabriel Bortoleto drives for Audi, 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 7.03 — P5 against P18, a gap of 1.90 of a grade point. Round by round, Lewis Hamilton has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Gabriel Bortoleto's clearest advantage is Pit Stop Execution — 8.12 against 8.00. Lewis Hamilton takes Race Pace back the other way, 9.26 to 7.60. They are effectively inseparable on Tyre Management, Pit Stop Execution, Cleanliness. 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 Gabriel Bortoleto's P13 on 39. Officially they stand P2 and P14.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.60 B Race Pace 9.26
7.97 C Consistency 8.15
6.96 D Attack & Defence 7.82
6.98 E Tyre Management 6.89
7.31 F Qualifying 7.86
6.44 G Race Start 8.04
8.42 I Cleanliness 8.45

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified