GabrielBortoletoAudi vs MaxVerstappenRed Bull Racing

Gabriel Bortoleto drives for Audi, 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 7.03 — P1 against P18, a gap of 2.76 of a grade point. Round by round, Max Verstappen has out-driven the other in 9 of 13 races where both were graded. Max Verstappen takes Attack & Defence back the other way, 9.83 to 6.96. They are effectively inseparable on Cleanliness. 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 Gabriel Bortoleto's P13 on 39. Officially they stand P6 and P14.