Head-to-head · season 2026

OscarPiastriMcLaren vs CarlosSainzWilliams

Oscar Piastri leads 11–3 in the race-grade duel, across the rounds both were rated in.

#10The Index · 8.35

P9DriverIndex Championship · 88 pts

P7Official · 117 pts

#12The Index · 8.08

P10DriverIndex Championship · 79 pts

P16Official · 7 pts

Round by round

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

MEL – 7.3 SHA – 9.0 SUZ 9.3 8.3 MIA 8.9 8.5 CAN 6.3 9.1 MON 8.0 8.0 ESP 7.8 8.8 AUT 8.7 – GBR 7.5 7.5 SPA 8.0 7.8 HUN 9.3 7.8 NED 7.7 6.4 ITA 8.5 9.2 MAD 6.9 6.4 BAK 7.8 7.6 MAL 8.4 8.2 SIN 8.4 8.4

The nine dimensions

season grades, mirrored — the longer bar wins the measure

8.33 OVD Overdelivery 7.49

7.88 PAC Race Pace 8.03

8.38 CON Consistency 8.05

8.18 ATK Attack & Defence 7.47

7.35 TYR Tyre Management 7.47

7.82 QUA Qualifying 9.39

8.64 STA Race Start 9.27

7.16 PIT Pit Stop Execution 7.41

8.08 CLN Cleanliness 7.71

Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified

Oscar Piastri vs Carlos Sainz: who is driving better in 2026?

Oscar Piastri drives for McLaren, Carlos Sainz for Williams, so the raw results are not comparable — everything on this page has car performance taken out of it. Oscar Piastri leads on The Index, 8.35 to 8.08 — P10 against P12, a gap of 0.27 of a grade point. Round by round, Oscar Piastri has out-driven the other in 11 of 14 races where both were graded. Oscar Piastri's clearest advantage is Overdelivery — 8.33 against 7.49. Carlos Sainz takes Qualifying back the other way, 9.39 to 7.82. They are effectively inseparable on Race Pace, Tyre Management. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Oscar Piastri sits P9 on 88 points to Carlos Sainz's P10 on 79. Officially they stand P7 and P16.