Head-to-head · season 2026

PierreGaslyAlpine vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

GAS leads the grade duel 2–1 — across the 14 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#6The Index · 8.70
P7DI championship · 80 pts
1best-of-race
P10official · 39 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Pierre Gasly vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Pierre Gasly drives for Alpine, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Pierre Gasly leads on The Index, 8.70 to 7.78 — P6 against P13, a gap of 0.92 of a grade point. Round by round, Pierre Gasly has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Pierre Gasly's clearest advantage is Qualifying — 8.98 against 6.00. Yuki Tsunoda takes Consistency back the other way, 9.84 to 7.77. 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 Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P10 and P20.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.79 A Overdelivery 7.96
8.41 B Race Pace 7.13
7.77 C Consistency 9.84
8.13 D Attack & Defence 7.55
8.50 E Tyre Management 9.70
8.98 F Qualifying 6.00
7.88 G Race Start 7.47
8.06 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified