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SAME CAR. WHO'S FASTER?

Every driver measured only against the person in the same machinery
RIC
Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull
1,678±70
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ALO
Fernando Alonso
McLaren
1,670±75
Too close to call
In equal machinery the model gives RIC 51.1% against ALO 48.9% — a 8-point gap. That gap sits inside the margin of error, so the model does not separate them.
NEVER SHARED A CAR · RATING LINKED THROUGH COMMON TEAMMATES
RIC profile ALO profile
All-time · 2014–2026
2026 grid All-time 2014–2026

Every driver rated since 2014, retired ones included. The 95% range is what the evidence actually supports: where two drivers' ranges overlap, the order between them is noise — read it in groups, not as a queue.

#Driver Teammate duels 95% range Rating
1 Max Verstappen Red Bull 330–81 1,782–1,925 1,853
2 Lando Norris McLaren 190–103 1,679–1,843 1,761
3 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 220–115 1,675–1,816 1,746
4 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 192–216 1,612–1,748 1,680
5 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 167–182 1,609–1,748 1,678
6 Fernando Alonso McLaren 255–90 1,595–1,745 1,670
7 George Russell Mercedes 206–87 1,564–1,742 1,653
8 Pierre Gasly Alpine F1 Team 180–115 1,569–1,718 1,644
9 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 276–213 1,561–1,719 1,640
10 Oscar Piastri McLaren 47–95 1,535–1,735 1,635
11 Nico Hülkenberg Force India 187–141 1,552–1,691 1,622
12 Pascal Wehrlein Manor Marussia 44–26 1,504–1,734 1,619
13 Alexander Albon Williams 123–85 1,523–1,690 1,606
14 Esteban Ocon Alpine F1 Team 138–174 1,535–1,674 1,605
15 Jenson Button McLaren 47–49 1,485–1,675 1,580
16 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 45–63 1,478–1,679 1,579
17 Sergio Pérez Force India 162–264 1,506–1,641 1,573
18 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 78–117 1,484–1,641 1,562
19 Marcus Ericsson Sauber 69–94 1,455–1,660 1,558
20 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 185–140 1,480–1,631 1,555
21 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 63–108 1,455–1,623 1,539
22 Felipe Nasr Sauber 32–36 1,409–1,661 1,535
23 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 196–212 1,434–1,598 1,516
24 Andrea Kimi Antonelli Mercedes 17–43 1,368–1,617 1,493
25 Romain Grosjean Haas F1 Team 125–96 1,395–1,582 1,488
26 Kevin Magnussen Haas F1 Team 141–162 1,403–1,567 1,485
27 Felipe Massa Williams 67–74 1,386–1,566 1,476
28 Mick Schumacher Haas F1 Team 50–27 1,345–1,593 1,469
29 Esteban Gutiérrez Haas F1 Team 33–33 1,338–1,599 1,469
30 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 97–234 1,346–1,491 1,419
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Pick two drivers. The model reports who wins in equal machinery, and their real record as teammates if they ever shared a garage.

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How it works — and what it can't see

A driver's finishing position mostly measures their car. Put anyone in the dominant chassis and they look like a champion. So this rating never compares a driver to the field — only to the one person who had the same machinery on the same day: their teammate.

Every weekend produces teammate duels, from both the race and qualifying. Qualifying matters because it is the cleanest comparison that exists: same car, same track, same session, no strategy and no first-lap chaos. Ratings then travel across the grid because drivers switch teams, so two drivers who never raced alongside each other are still connected through the teammates they shared.

Mechanical retirements are discarded. Losing to your teammate on the day your gearbox failed measures the gearbox. Crashes and collisions do count — those are the driver's.

Every driver's strength is fitted jointly, from the whole duel record at once (a Bradley-Terry maximum-likelihood fit), rather than by walking the results in order and nudging a number after each one. That matters: the sequential approach makes the answer depend on where you start and how hard you nudge, and on this exact data it buried a seven-time champion in mid-table purely because a long career kept getting regressed toward the average.

The margin of error is part of the answer. The teammate graph is thin — most drivers have only had a handful of teammates — so several of them genuinely cannot be separated. Each rating is published with the range the evidence actually supports, and when two ranges overlap this page says "too close to call" instead of inventing a winner.

The honest limits, because a number worth sharing should carry them:

  • It cannot see team orders, split strategies, or who got the upgrade first.
  • A driver whose teammate was exceptional will rate lower than their reputation. That is the point — but it is still a comparison of two people, not a measurement of one.
  • Race and qualifying duels from the same weekend are correlated, so the ranges are, if anything, slightly optimistic.
  • Drivers with fewer than 60 duels are left out of the ranking entirely. One strong season is not a career.
  • It measures who was ahead, not by how much, and not why.

Built on the public F1 results archive (Jolpica/Ergast), 2014–2026.

263 RACE WEEKENDS · 4,474 TEAMMATE DUELS (1,886 RACE + 2,588 QUALIFYING) · 13 SEASONS · UPDATED 13 Aug 2026

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