Head-to-head · season 2026

LandoNorrisMcLaren vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

NOR leads the grade duel 3–0 — across the 14 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#3The Index · 9.40
P2DI championship · 134 pts
2best-of-race
P4official · 154 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Lando Norris vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Lando Norris drives for McLaren, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Lando Norris leads on The Index, 9.40 to 7.78 — P3 against P13, a gap of 1.62 of a grade point. Round by round, Lando Norris has out-driven the other in 3 of 3 races where both were graded. Lando Norris's clearest advantage is Qualifying — 8.31 against 6.00. Yuki Tsunoda takes Pit Stop Execution back the other way, 8.79 to 6.87. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Lando Norris sits P2 on 134 points to Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P4 and P20.

Round by round

the race grade decides each round · click a round for the full analysis
MEL 8.2 – SHA 8.0 – SUZ 7.9 – MIA 9.7 – CAN 7.7 – MON 8.1 – ESP 8.8 – AUT 7.5 – GBR 8.7 – SPA 8.9 – HUN 9.5 –

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
9.28 A Overdelivery 7.96
9.22 B Race Pace 7.13
9.16 C Consistency 9.84
8.47 D Attack & Defence 7.55
8.33 E Tyre Management 9.70
8.31 F Qualifying 6.00
8.03 G Race Start 7.47
6.87 H Pit Stop Execution 8.79
8.58 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified