Head-to-head · season 2026

PierreGaslyAlpine vs SergioPerezCadillac

GAS leads the grade duel 9–4 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#6The Index · 8.86
P7DI championship · 80 pts
1best-of-race
P10official · 39 pts
#11The Index · 8.07
P11DI championship · 49 pts
1best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts

Pierre Gasly vs Sergio Perez: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Pierre Gasly drives for Alpine, Sergio Perez for Cadillac, 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 8.07 — P6 against P11, a gap of 0.78 of a grade point. Round by round, Pierre Gasly has out-driven the other in 9 of 13 races where both were graded. Pierre Gasly's clearest advantage is Cleanliness — 8.20 against 6.26. Sergio Perez takes Pit Stop Execution back the other way, 7.99 to 7.40. They are effectively inseparable on Attack & Defence, Race Start. 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 Sergio Perez's P11 on 49. Officially they stand P10 and P21.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.46 B Race Pace 8.95
7.77 C Consistency 6.06
8.24 D Attack & Defence 8.17
8.80 E Tyre Management 8.34
9.26 F Qualifying 7.95
7.83 G Race Start 7.90
8.20 I Cleanliness 6.26

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified