Head-to-head · season 2026

LanceStrollAston Martin vs YukiTsunodaRacing Bulls

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

VS
#15The Index · 7.37
P17DI championship · 25 pts
0best-of-race
P21official · 0 pts
#13The Index · 7.78
P23DI championship · 8 pts
0best-of-race
P20official · 1 pts

Lance Stroll vs Yuki Tsunoda: who is driving better in 2026?

the verdict, from the numbers

Lance Stroll drives for Aston Martin, Yuki Tsunoda for Racing Bulls, so the raw results are not comparable — everything below has car performance taken out of it. Yuki Tsunoda leads on The Index, 7.78 to 7.37 — P13 against P15, a gap of 0.41 of a grade point. Round by round, Lance Stroll has out-driven the other in 2 of 3 races where both were graded. Lance Stroll's clearest advantage is Race Pace — 8.28 against 7.13. Yuki Tsunoda takes Consistency back the other way, 9.84 to 6.99. They are effectively inseparable on Pit Stop Execution. In the DriverIndex Championship — the same season paid on the official points scale, but on driver merit — Lance Stroll sits P17 on 25 points to Yuki Tsunoda's P23 on 8. Officially they stand P21 and P20.

The nine dimensions

season averages, mirrored — the longer bar wins the metric
7.11 A Overdelivery 7.96
8.28 B Race Pace 7.13
6.99 C Consistency 9.84
7.72 D Attack & Defence 7.55
8.12 E Tyre Management 9.70
6.29 F Qualifying 6.00
7.93 G Race Start 7.47
6.53 I Cleanliness 8.36

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Race grade, round by round

gaps = not classified