Head-to-head · season 2026

LiamLawsonRed Bull Racing vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

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

VS
#17The Index · 7.23
P16DI championship · 27 pts
0best-of-race
P9official · 56 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Liam Lawson vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Liam Lawson drives for Red Bull Racing, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Yuki Tsunoda leads on The Index, 7.78 to 7.23 — P13 against P17, a gap of 0.55 of a grade point. Round by round, Liam Lawson has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Liam Lawson's clearest advantage is Qualifying — 7.90 against 6.00. Yuki Tsunoda takes Tyre Management back the other way, 9.70 to 8.70. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Liam Lawson sits P16 on 27 points to Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P9 and P20.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
8.24 A Overdelivery 7.96
6.76 B Race Pace 7.13
9.13 C Consistency 9.84
8.18 D Attack & Defence 7.55
8.70 E Tyre Management 9.70
7.90 F Qualifying 6.00
8.99 G Race Start 7.47
8.85 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified