Head-to-head · season 2026

EstebanOconHaas F1 Team vs MaxVerstappenRed Bull Racing

VER leads the grade duel 10–3 — across the 13 rounds both were rated in, the car stripped out of the equation.

VS
#12The Index · 7.71
P12DI championship · 39 pts
0best-of-race
P18official · 3 pts
#1The Index · 9.79
P1DI championship · 139 pts
2best-of-race
P6official · 115 pts

Esteban Ocon vs Max Verstappen: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Esteban Ocon drives for Haas F1 Team, Max Verstappen for Red Bull Racing, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Max Verstappen leads on The Index, 9.79 to 7.71 — P1 against P12, a gap of 2.08 of a grade point. Round by round, Max Verstappen has out-driven the other in 10 of 13 races where both were graded. Esteban Ocon's clearest advantage is Race Start — 8.66 against 7.24. Max Verstappen takes Expected Position back the other way, 10.00 to 7.27. They are effectively inseparable on Cleanliness. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Max Verstappen sits P1 on 139 points to Esteban Ocon's P12 on 39. Officially they stand P6 and P18.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.27 A Expected Position 10.00
7.80 B Race Pace 9.84
8.33 C Consistency 9.34
8.13 D Attack & Defence 9.83
7.71 E Tyre Management 7.89
7.00 F Qualifying 8.60
8.66 G Race Start 7.24
8.49 I Cleanliness 8.51

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified