Head-to-head · season 2026

ArvidLindbladRacing Bulls vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

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

VS
#21The Index · 6.81
P19DI championship · 20 pts
0best-of-race
P11official · 30 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Arvid Lindblad vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Arvid Lindblad and Yuki Tsunoda are Racing Bulls team mates this season, which makes this the cleanest comparison in Formula 1: two drivers, the same machinery, the same strategy calls. Yuki Tsunoda leads on The Index, 7.78 to 6.81 — P13 against P21, a gap of 0.98 of a grade point. Round by round, Arvid Lindblad has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Arvid Lindblad's clearest advantage is Qualifying — 8.32 against 6.00. Yuki Tsunoda takes Tyre Management back the other way, 9.70 to 7.84. They are effectively inseparable on Overdelivery. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Arvid Lindblad sits P19 on 20 points to Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P11 and P20.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.96 A Overdelivery 7.96
6.95 B Race Pace 7.13
8.16 C Consistency 9.84
8.06 D Attack & Defence 7.55
7.84 E Tyre Management 9.70
8.32 F Qualifying 6.00
8.76 G Race Start 7.47
7.51 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified