Head-to-head · season 2026

IsackHadjarRed Bull Racing vs LanceStrollAston Martin

HAD 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
#15The Index · 7.31
P18DI championship · 24 pts
0best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts

Isack Hadjar vs Lance Stroll: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Isack Hadjar drives for Red Bull Racing, Lance Stroll for Aston Martin, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Lance Stroll leads on The Index, 7.31 to 6.81 — P15 against P20, a gap of 0.51 of a grade point. Round by round, Isack Hadjar has out-driven the other in 6 of 11 races where both were graded. Isack Hadjar's clearest advantage is Cleanliness — 8.84 against 6.53. Lance Stroll takes Race Pace back the other way, 8.28 to 7.47. They are effectively inseparable on Expected Position, Race Start. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Isack Hadjar sits P17 on 25 points to Lance Stroll's P18 on 24. Officially they stand P8 and P21.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.47 B Race Pace 8.28
8.00 C Consistency 6.99
6.99 D Attack & Defence 7.72
7.94 E Tyre Management 8.12
7.72 F Qualifying 6.29
7.77 G Race Start 7.84
8.84 I Cleanliness 6.53

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified