Head-to-head · season 2026

LewisHamiltonFerrari vs LiamLawsonRed Bull Racing

HAM leads the grade duel 8–5 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#5The Index · 8.92
P5DI championship · 95 pts
2best-of-race
P2official · 171 pts
#14The Index · 7.37
P16DI championship · 27 pts
0best-of-race
P9official · 48 pts

Lewis Hamilton vs Liam Lawson: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Lewis Hamilton drives for Ferrari, Liam Lawson for Red Bull Racing, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Lewis Hamilton leads on The Index, 8.92 to 7.37 — P5 against P14, a gap of 1.55 of a grade point. Round by round, Lewis Hamilton has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Lewis Hamilton's clearest advantage is Race Pace — 9.26 against 6.81. Liam Lawson takes Tyre Management back the other way, 8.64 to 6.89. They are effectively inseparable on Qualifying, Pit Stop Execution. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Lewis Hamilton sits P5 on 95 points to Liam Lawson's P16 on 27. Officially they stand P2 and P9.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
9.26 B Race Pace 6.81
8.15 C Consistency 9.15
7.82 D Attack & Defence 8.30
6.89 E Tyre Management 8.64
7.86 F Qualifying 7.98
8.04 G Race Start 9.13
8.45 I Cleanliness 9.03

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified