Head-to-head · season 2026
LiamLawsonRacing Bulls vs MaxVerstappenRed Bull Racing
Max Verstappen leads 13–2 in the race-grade duel, across the rounds both were rated in.
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the race grade decides each round · click a round for the full analysisThe nine dimensions
season grades, mirrored — the longer bar wins the measureRace grade, round by round
gaps = not classifiedLiam Lawson vs Max Verstappen: who is driving better in 2026?
Liam Lawson drives for Racing Bulls, Max Verstappen for Red Bull Racing, so the raw results are not comparable — everything on this page has car performance taken out of it. Max Verstappen leads on The Index, 10.00 to 7.54 — P1 against P16, a gap of 2.46 of a grade point. Round by round, Max Verstappen has out-driven the other in 13 of 15 races where both were graded. Liam Lawson's clearest advantage is Race Start — 9.26 against 7.28. Max Verstappen takes Race Pace back the other way, 10.00 to 6.98. They are effectively inseparable on Consistency, Cleanliness. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Max Verstappen sits P1 on 195 points to Liam Lawson's P17 on 35. Officially they stand P4 and P9.