Head-to-head · season 2026

GabrielBortoletoAudi vs CharlesLeclercFerrari

LEC 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
#3The Index · 9.37
P2DI championship · 130 pts
2best-of-race
P5official · 127 pts

Gabriel Bortoleto vs Charles Leclerc: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Gabriel Bortoleto drives for Audi, Charles Leclerc for Ferrari, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Charles Leclerc leads on The Index, 9.37 to 7.03 — P3 against P18, a gap of 2.34 of a grade point. Round by round, Charles Leclerc 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 6.61. Charles Leclerc takes Race Start back the other way, 9.68 to 6.44. They are effectively inseparable on Cleanliness. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Charles Leclerc sits P2 on 130 points to Gabriel Bortoleto's P13 on 39. Officially they stand P5 and P14.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.60 B Race Pace 9.63
7.97 C Consistency 8.63
6.96 D Attack & Defence 7.52
6.98 E Tyre Management 8.09
7.31 F Qualifying 8.18
6.44 G Race Start 9.68
8.42 I Cleanliness 8.44

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified