Head-to-head · season 2026

LiamLawsonRed Bull Racing vs CharlesLeclercFerrari

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

VS
#14The Index · 7.37
P16DI championship · 27 pts
0best-of-race
P9official · 48 pts
#3The Index · 9.37
P2DI championship · 130 pts
2best-of-race
P5official · 127 pts

Liam Lawson vs Charles Leclerc: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Liam Lawson drives for Red Bull Racing, Charles Leclerc for Ferrari, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Charles Leclerc leads on The Index, 9.37 to 7.37 — P3 against P14, a gap of 2.00 of a grade point. Round by round, Charles Leclerc has out-driven the other in 8 of 13 races where both were graded. Liam Lawson's clearest advantage is Pit Stop Execution — 8.09 against 6.61. Charles Leclerc takes Race Pace back the other way, 9.63 to 6.81. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Charles Leclerc sits P2 on 130 points to Liam Lawson's P16 on 27. Officially they stand P5 and P9.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
6.81 B Race Pace 9.63
9.15 C Consistency 8.63
8.30 D Attack & Defence 7.52
8.64 E Tyre Management 8.09
7.98 F Qualifying 8.18
9.13 G Race Start 9.68
9.03 I Cleanliness 8.44

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified