CarlosSainzWilliams vs MaxVerstappenRed Bull Racing

Carlos Sainz drives for Williams, 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 8.51 — P1 against P9, a gap of 1.28 of a grade point. Round by round, Max Verstappen has out-driven the other in 9 of 13 races where both were graded. Carlos Sainz's clearest advantage is Race Start — 9.04 against 7.24. Max Verstappen takes Attack & Defence back the other way, 9.83 to 6.87. They are effectively inseparable on Tyre Management. 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 Carlos Sainz's P9 on 74. Officially they stand P6 and P15.