Head-to-head · season 2026

ValtteriBottasCadillac vs PierreGaslyAlpine

GAS leads the grade duel 11–2 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#19The Index · 6.86
P19DI championship · 19 pts
0best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts
#6The Index · 8.86
P7DI championship · 80 pts
1best-of-race
P10official · 39 pts

Valtteri Bottas vs Pierre Gasly: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Valtteri Bottas drives for Cadillac, Pierre Gasly for Alpine, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Pierre Gasly leads on The Index, 8.86 to 6.86 — P6 against P19, a gap of 2.00 of a grade point. Round by round, Pierre Gasly has out-driven the other in 11 of 13 races where both were graded. Pierre Gasly takes Tyre Management back the other way, 8.80 to 6.50. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Pierre Gasly sits P7 on 80 points to Valtteri Bottas's P19 on 19. Officially they stand P10 and P21.

Round by round

the race grade decides each round · click a round for the full analysis
MEL 7.9 9.0 SUZ 6.6 9.1 MIA 7.0 7.9 CAN 7.3 7.8 MON 7.9 8.3 ESP 7.9 7.9 AUT 8.0 8.1 GBR 7.5 9.6 SPA 7.1 8.4 NED 8.2 8.5 ITA 7.2 7.8

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.16 A Expected Position 8.92
7.59 B Race Pace 8.46
6.98 C Consistency 7.77
6.26 D Attack & Defence 8.24
6.50 E Tyre Management 8.80
8.09 F Qualifying 9.26
7.06 G Race Start 7.83
6.61 H Pit Stop Execution 7.40
7.36 I Cleanliness 8.20

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified