Head-to-head · season 2026

ArvidLindbladRacing Bulls vs OscarPiastriMcLaren

PIA leads the grade duel 9–4 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#21The Index · 6.65
P22DI championship · 16 pts
0best-of-race
P11official · 28 pts
#8The Index · 8.59
P8DI championship · 74 pts
0best-of-race
P7official · 95 pts

Arvid Lindblad vs Oscar Piastri: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Arvid Lindblad drives for Racing Bulls, Oscar Piastri for McLaren, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Oscar Piastri leads on The Index, 8.59 to 6.65 — P8 against P21, a gap of 1.94 of a grade point. Round by round, Oscar Piastri has out-driven the other in 9 of 13 races where both were graded. Arvid Lindblad's clearest advantage is Pit Stop Execution — 7.99 against 6.53. Oscar Piastri takes Race Pace back the other way, 7.92 to 6.86. They are effectively inseparable on Consistency. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Oscar Piastri sits P8 on 74 points to Arvid Lindblad's P22 on 16. Officially they stand P7 and P11.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
6.86 B Race Pace 7.92
8.29 C Consistency 8.14
8.02 D Attack & Defence 8.41
8.02 E Tyre Management 6.56
8.18 F Qualifying 7.89
8.74 G Race Start 9.20
7.66 I Cleanliness 8.23

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified