SergioPerezCadillac vs MaxVerstappenRed Bull Racing

Sergio Perez drives for Cadillac, 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 8.07 — P1 against P11, a gap of 1.72 of a grade point. Round by round, Max Verstappen has out-driven the other in 9 of 13 races where both were graded. Sergio Perez's clearest advantage is Race Start — 7.90 against 7.24. Max Verstappen takes Consistency back the other way, 9.34 to 6.06. 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 Sergio Perez's P11 on 49. Officially they stand P6 and P21.