LewisHamiltonFerrari vs MaxVerstappenRed Bull Racing

Lewis Hamilton drives for Ferrari, Max Verstappen for Red Bull Racing, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Max Verstappen leads on The Index, 9.79 to 8.92 — P1 against P5, a gap of 0.87 of a grade point. Round by round, Max Verstappen has out-driven the other in 7 of 13 races where both were graded. Lewis Hamilton's clearest advantage is Race Start — 8.04 against 7.24. Max Verstappen takes Attack & Defence back the other way, 9.83 to 7.82. They are effectively inseparable on Cleanliness. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Max Verstappen sits P1 on 139 points to Lewis Hamilton's P5 on 95. Officially they stand P6 and P2.