Head-to-head · season 2026

IsackHadjarRed Bull Racing vs SergioPerezCadillac

PER leads the grade duel 6–5 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#20The Index · 6.81
P17DI championship · 25 pts
0best-of-race
P8official · 71 pts
#11The Index · 8.07
P11DI championship · 49 pts
1best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts

Isack Hadjar vs Sergio Perez: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Isack Hadjar drives for Red Bull Racing, Sergio Perez for Cadillac, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Sergio Perez leads on The Index, 8.07 to 6.81 — P11 against P20, a gap of 1.27 of a grade point. Round by round, Sergio Perez has out-driven the other in 6 of 11 races where both were graded. Isack Hadjar's clearest advantage is Cleanliness — 8.84 against 6.26. Sergio Perez takes Race Pace back the other way, 8.95 to 7.47. They are effectively inseparable on Race Start, Pit Stop Execution. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Sergio Perez sits P11 on 49 points to Isack Hadjar's P17 on 25. Officially they stand P21 and P8.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.47 B Race Pace 8.95
8.00 C Consistency 6.06
6.99 D Attack & Defence 8.17
7.94 E Tyre Management 8.34
7.72 F Qualifying 7.95
7.77 G Race Start 7.90
8.84 I Cleanliness 6.26

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified