Head-to-head · season 2026

FrancoColapintoAlpine vs LiamLawsonRed Bull Racing

LAW leads the grade duel 8–5 — 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
#14The Index · 7.37
P16DI championship · 27 pts
0best-of-race
P9official · 48 pts

Franco Colapinto vs Liam Lawson: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Franco Colapinto drives for Alpine, Liam Lawson for Red Bull Racing, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Liam Lawson leads on The Index, 7.37 to 6.59 — P14 against P22, a gap of 0.78 of a grade point. Round by round, Liam Lawson has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Franco Colapinto's clearest advantage is Race Pace — 7.24 against 6.81. Liam Lawson takes Consistency back the other way, 9.15 to 7.39. They are effectively inseparable on Attack & Defence. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Franco Colapinto sits P14 on 33 points to Liam Lawson's P16 on 27. Officially they stand P12 and P9.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.24 B Race Pace 6.81
7.39 C Consistency 9.15
8.21 D Attack & Defence 8.30
7.79 E Tyre Management 8.64
6.75 F Qualifying 7.98
8.70 G Race Start 9.13
7.86 I Cleanliness 9.03

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified