Head-to-head · season 2026

SergioPerezCadillac vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

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

#10The Index · 8.19

P11DI championship · 64 pts

1best-of-race

P21official · 0 pts

#13The Index · 7.78

P23DI championship · 8 pts

0best-of-race

P20official · 1 pts

Sergio Perez vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Sergio Perez drives for Cadillac, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Sergio Perez leads on The Index, 8.19 to 7.78 — P10 against P13, a gap of 0.41 of a grade point. Round by round, Sergio Perez has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Sergio Perez's clearest advantage is Qualifying — 8.32 against 6.00. Yuki Tsunoda takes Consistency back the other way, 9.84 to 6.03. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Sergio Perez sits P11 on 64 points to Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P21 and P20.

Round by round

the race grade decides each round · click a round for the full analysis

MEL 7.9 – SHA 7.5 – SUZ 8.5 – MIA 8.5 – CAN 9.6 – MON 7.5 – ESP 7.6 – AUT 8.1 – GBR 8.1 – SPA 8.0 – HUN 7.8 – NED 8.2 7.5 ITA 7.7 8.6 MAD 8.7 7.3

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric

8.49 A Overdelivery 7.96

9.12 B Race Pace 7.13

6.03 C Consistency 9.84

8.30 D Attack & Defence 7.55

7.72 E Tyre Management 9.70

8.32 F Qualifying 6.00

7.98 G Race Start 7.47

7.99 H Pit Stop Execution 8.79

6.26 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified