Head-to-head · season 2026

EstebanOconHaas F1 Team vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

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

VS
#12The Index · 7.81
P12DI championship · 45 pts
0best-of-race
P18official · 3 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Esteban Ocon vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Esteban Ocon drives for Haas F1 Team, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. On The Index they are level — 7.81 against 7.78, P12 and P13 of the grid. Round by round, Esteban Ocon has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Esteban Ocon's clearest advantage is Race Start — 8.87 against 7.47. Yuki Tsunoda takes Tyre Management back the other way, 9.70 to 7.89. They are effectively inseparable on Cleanliness. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Esteban Ocon sits P12 on 45 points to Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P18 and P20.

The nine dimensions

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

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified