Head-to-head · season 2026

LewisHamiltonFerrari vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

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

VS
#5The Index · 8.84
P5DI championship · 95 pts
2best-of-race
P3official · 171 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Lewis Hamilton vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Lewis Hamilton drives for Ferrari, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Lewis Hamilton leads on The Index, 8.84 to 7.78 — P5 against P13, a gap of 1.06 of a grade point. Round by round, Lewis Hamilton has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Lewis Hamilton's clearest advantage is Race Pace — 9.26 against 7.13. Yuki Tsunoda takes Tyre Management back the other way, 9.70 to 6.89. They are effectively inseparable on Cleanliness. 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 Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P3 and P20.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.85 A Overdelivery 7.96
9.26 B Race Pace 7.13
8.15 C Consistency 9.84
7.82 D Attack & Defence 7.55
6.89 E Tyre Management 9.70
7.88 F Qualifying 6.00
8.00 G Race Start 7.47
8.45 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified