Head-to-head · season 2026

FrancoColapintoAlpine vs LewisHamiltonFerrari

HAM leads the grade duel 10–3 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#22The Index · 6.59
P14DI championship · 33 pts
0best-of-race
P12official · 21 pts
#5The Index · 8.92
P5DI championship · 95 pts
2best-of-race
P2official · 171 pts

Franco Colapinto vs Lewis Hamilton: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Franco Colapinto drives for Alpine, 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 6.59 — P5 against P22, a gap of 2.34 of a grade point. Round by round, Lewis Hamilton has out-driven the other in 10 of 13 races where both were graded. Franco Colapinto's clearest advantage is Tyre Management — 7.79 against 6.89. Lewis Hamilton takes Expected Position back the other way, 8.85 to 6.80. 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 Franco Colapinto's P14 on 33. Officially they stand P2 and P12.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.24 B Race Pace 9.26
7.39 C Consistency 8.15
8.21 D Attack & Defence 7.82
7.79 E Tyre Management 6.89
6.75 F Qualifying 7.86
8.70 G Race Start 8.04
7.86 I Cleanliness 8.45

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified