Head-to-head · season 2026

GabrielBortoletoAudi vs OscarPiastriMcLaren

PIA 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
#8The Index · 8.59
P8DI championship · 74 pts
0best-of-race
P7official · 95 pts

Gabriel Bortoleto vs Oscar Piastri: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Gabriel Bortoleto drives for Audi, Oscar Piastri for McLaren, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Oscar Piastri leads on The Index, 8.59 to 7.03 — P8 against P18, a gap of 1.56 of a grade point. Round by round, Oscar Piastri 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 6.53. Oscar Piastri takes Race Start back the other way, 9.20 to 6.44. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Oscar Piastri sits P8 on 74 points to Gabriel Bortoleto's P13 on 39. Officially they stand P7 and P14.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.60 B Race Pace 7.92
7.97 C Consistency 8.14
6.96 D Attack & Defence 8.41
6.98 E Tyre Management 6.56
7.31 F Qualifying 7.89
6.44 G Race Start 9.20
8.42 I Cleanliness 8.23

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified