Ferrari vs F1 Rivals: Team Head-to-Head Statistics
Ferrari vs Formula 1 rivals in the 2026 season
The Ferrari vs F1 Rivals comparison above provides a team-level analysis of Ferrari’s performance against the other constructors during the 2026 Formula 1 season. Select a rival to compare Ferrari directly with Mercedes, McLaren, Red Bull Racing and the rest of the grid across championship points, race results, qualifying, race pace, fastest laps and additional team statistics.
Unlike a driver comparison, this tool evaluates the performance of the constructor as a whole. Results from both Ferrari cars contribute to the relevant team statistics, while the selected rival is analysed using the same methodology. This makes it possible to see not only where Ferrari sits in the Constructors’ Championship, but also where the team has gained or lost ground against a particular opponent from one race weekend to the next.
The comparison is updated as new Formula 1 race, qualifying and timing data is added to the ScuderiaFans statistics database. For the broader championship picture, you can also follow the latest Formula 1 constructor standings.
Compare Ferrari with Mercedes, McLaren, Red Bull and other F1 teams
The rival selector allows Ferrari to be compared directly with every constructor available in the 2026 dataset. This includes major championship rivals such as Mercedes, McLaren and Red Bull Racing as well as Williams, Aston Martin, Haas, Alpine, Audi, Racing Bulls and Cadillac.
Ferrari always remains the reference team on the left side of the comparison. Changing the rival automatically recalculates the season overview, head-to-head scores, charts, advanced metrics and race-by-race table.
This means the same page can answer several different questions. Ferrari may be ahead of one rival in championship points while trailing another, or may have stronger underlying race pace despite losing individual race weekends through qualifying, strategy or reliability.
Ferrari vs Mercedes F1 statistics
A Ferrari vs Mercedes comparison can show far more than the difference between the two teams in the Constructors’ Championship. The dashboard tracks which constructor scored more Grand Prix points at each race, which produced the best qualifying result, which had the better official race result and which showed the stronger calculated Team Race Pace.
The championship-points progression chart also makes it possible to see how the gap between Ferrari and Mercedes has developed across the season rather than looking only at the current total.
That distinction is useful because championship positions can sometimes hide changing performance trends. One team may build a substantial advantage early in the season before its rival begins recovering points later in the year.
Ferrari vs McLaren F1 statistics
The Ferrari vs McLaren comparison uses exactly the same methodology. Official classifications determine championship points, race results and qualifying positions, while locally processed timing data is used for analytical metrics such as Team Race Pace and clean-lap comparisons.
Because both cars contribute to the team-level analysis, the comparison can reveal whether Ferrari’s advantage or deficit is concentrated in one particularly strong driver or reflects the overall performance of the two-car team.
It can also highlight contrasting weekends. Ferrari may qualify ahead of McLaren but score fewer points, or produce stronger representative race pace while finishing behind after strategy, traffic or an interruption changes the result.
Ferrari vs Red Bull Racing F1 statistics
Ferrari and Red Bull Racing can also be compared directly across the full 2026 season. The head-to-head dashboard separates qualifying, official race results, championship scoring, fastest laps and Team Race Pace rather than attempting to reduce every aspect of performance to a single number.
This matters because Formula 1 performance is multi-dimensional. A constructor can have the quicker car over representative racing laps without achieving the better finishing position, while another team may maximise points through track position, strategy or stronger execution.
2026 Constructors’ Championship points comparison
The season overview displays the official constructors’ points and championship positions for Ferrari and the selected rival.
These totals include points awarded through both Grands Prix and Sprint events. They therefore represent the actual championship situation rather than a timing-based estimate.
The Championship points progression chart shows the cumulative total after each completed race weekend. This provides useful context when one team has gained or lost momentum during the season.
A current championship gap alone does not show when that advantage was created. By following the progression race by race, it becomes possible to identify the weekends where Ferrari moved closer to a rival and the periods where the gap increased.
Points gained or lost by race weekend
The points gained or lost chart measures the difference between Ferrari’s championship score and the selected rival’s score on each race weekend.
A positive bar means Ferrari scored more championship points during that weekend. A negative bar means the rival scored more.
On Sprint weekends, the calculation includes both Grand Prix and Sprint points because both contribute to the championship. This is why this chart is described as a race-weekend comparison rather than a Grand Prix-only statistic.
The separate Grand Prix points head-to-head remains Grand Prix-specific. Keeping the two metrics distinct makes it possible to compare Sunday race performance without losing the championship impact of Sprint events.
Ferrari vs rival head-to-head score
The Head-to-Head Score section summarises several direct comparisons across the completed 2026 Grands Prix.
Grand Prix points records which constructor scored more points in the main race. Best race result compares the highest classified car from each team at every Grand Prix. Best-car qualifying compares the strongest qualifying position recorded by either car from Ferrari and the selected rival.
The section also contains Team Race Pace, Fastest Lap and Sprint Points head-to-head scores. Each statistic measures a different aspect of performance, so the results do not necessarily point to the same team.
How the best-car qualifying comparison works
For every Grand Prix weekend, the highest qualifying position achieved by either Ferrari driver is compared with the highest qualifying position achieved by either driver from the selected rival.
For example, if Ferrari qualifies second and seventh while the rival qualifies third and fourth, Ferrari wins the best-car qualifying comparison because its leading car starts ahead.
The season overview also includes the average qualifying position across both cars. This is a different metric and helps show the overall qualifying strength of the team rather than focusing only on its quickest car.
Official qualifying classifications are used so that a driver’s subsequent retirement or failure to start the Grand Prix does not remove a valid qualifying result from the comparison.
Average qualifying position
Average qualifying position considers both cars across the imported Grand Prix weekends. A lower figure is better.
This statistic provides useful context alongside best-car qualifying. One constructor may regularly place one car near the front while the second car qualifies much further back. Another team may have two cars consistently close together.
Looking at both statistics helps distinguish outright qualifying potential from the overall strength of the two-car operation.
What is Team Race Pace?
Team Race Pace is designed to estimate representative sustained Grand Prix speed at constructor level.
It is deliberately different from simply calculating the median of every racing lap recorded by both cars. Doing that could give excessive influence to whichever driver completed more eligible laps.
Instead, each driver’s Race Pace is calculated separately first. Ferrari therefore has one representative median for each car with sufficient data, and the rival is treated in exactly the same way.
The available driver-level medians are then combined to produce a team median Race Pace. This gives each available car equal influence in the final team comparison.
How Ferrari Team Race Pace is calculated
The underlying driver Race Pace calculation uses the median of eligible clean racing laps.
Lap 1 is excluded because race starts and opening-lap traffic are fundamentally different from normal racing conditions. Pit-in and pit-out laps are excluded because travelling through the pit lane produces non-representative lap times.
Laps substantially affected by Safety Car, Virtual Safety Car or race interruptions are also excluded, together with invalid, deleted or missing timing data where appropriate.
After each driver’s representative Race Pace has been calculated, those values are combined at constructor level.
If only one car from a team has sufficient usable data, the Race Pace comparison can still be retained, but the race is marked as having a limited sample. This allows useful information to remain visible without presenting a one-car sample as equivalent to a complete two-car comparison.
Team Race Pace advantage by Grand Prix
The Team Race Pace chart shows the difference between Ferrari and the selected rival at every Grand Prix with sufficient timing data.
Positive values indicate that Ferrari had the faster calculated Team Race Pace. Negative values indicate an advantage for the rival.
The size of each bar represents the estimated difference per lap. A small gap can indicate that the two teams were closely matched, while a substantially larger value suggests a clearer difference in sustained pace during the usable parts of the race.
Race Pace should always be interpreted alongside strategy and race circumstances. Different tyre compounds, stint lengths, traffic, car damage and fuel or tyre management can affect lap times even when the underlying cars are closely matched.
Why Team Race Pace can differ from the race result
The fastest team on representative race laps does not necessarily score the most points or achieve the best finishing position.
Formula 1 results are affected by starting position, overtaking difficulty, pit-stop strategy, Safety Cars, reliability, penalties and track position. One constructor can therefore show stronger underlying pace but still lose the race-weekend comparison.
This is why the ScuderiaFans statistics tool displays Team Race Pace and Best Race Result independently.
The same principle applies to championship scoring. A team that consistently finishes both cars in the points may outscore a rival that produces a faster single car but suffers more retirements or weaker second-car results.
Ferrari vs rival fastest-lap comparison
The Fastest Lap head-to-head compares the quickest valid Grand Prix lap produced by either Ferrari car with the quickest valid lap from either car belonging to the selected rival.
This should not be confused with the season card showing official Grand Prix fastest laps. The season card counts occasions where the constructor produced the fastest lap of the entire Formula 1 field.
The head-to-head statistic asks a different question: which of Ferrari and the selected rival produced the quicker fastest lap at each Grand Prix?
Because these are different measurements, the two totals can legitimately differ.
Comparable team clean laps
The Advanced Team Comparison includes a clean-lap statistic designed to examine how often Ferrari produced the faster representative lap against the selected rival.
For each comparable lap number, the eligible cars from a team are reduced to a single team median. Ferrari’s value is then compared with the corresponding team median from its rival.
This prevents a four-way comparison between every individual driver combination from artificially multiplying the sample or giving one team greater influence simply because more individual lap records are available.
The resulting percentage shows how often Ferrari or its rival was faster across the comparable same-lap sample.
Double-points finishes and two-car performance
A constructor’s strength is not determined only by its quickest car. Scoring consistently with both drivers can make a major difference in the Constructors’ Championship.
The Double-points finishes statistic counts Grands Prix where both cars scored points. The dashboard also tracks individual-car points finishes, allowing the two measures to be considered together.
A team with fewer individual victories can still build a strong championship campaign if both cars regularly finish near the front.
Double Q3 appearances and front-row starts
Qualifying depth is measured through several complementary statistics.
Double Q3 appearances count weekends where both cars reached Q3, while front-row starts count individual qualifying results in either P1 or P2.
These statistics show whether a constructor’s qualifying performance is being delivered by both cars or predominantly by one driver.
Wins, podiums, fastest laps and laps led
The season overview also contains traditional Formula 1 performance statistics such as Grand Prix wins, podium finishes, pole positions, fastest laps and laps led.
Podium finishes are counted at driver level, meaning a constructor can record two podium finishes at the same Grand Prix if both cars finish inside the top three.
Laps led count the number of Grand Prix laps during which a car from the constructor was officially running in first position. Although this can be influenced by pit-stop strategy, it provides useful context about how frequently a team has controlled races from the front.
DNFs and reliability
The DNF statistic counts driver retirements from Grands Prix. Because a constructor operates two cars, multiple retirements can occur during the same event.
Reliability can have a significant impact on the Constructors’ Championship. A team may have competitive race pace but lose substantial points through mechanical failures, accident damage or other retirements.
For this reason, DNFs should be considered alongside Race Pace and qualifying rather than viewed as a pure measure of car speed.
Race weekends Ferrari outscored its rival
The Advanced Team Comparison shows how many completed race weekends Ferrari has outscored the selected constructor.
It also calculates Ferrari’s average points advantage on weekends it wins the scoring battle and the average deficit on weekends where the rival scores more.
This adds context to the championship totals. Winning seven weekends by only a few points may have less impact than losing two weekends by very large margins.
Race-by-race Ferrari vs F1 rivals comparison
The race-by-race table brings the key constructor statistics together in one place.
For every Grand Prix it displays the weekend points scored by Ferrari and the selected rival, the best qualifying result from each team, their best official race finish and the Team Race Pace comparison.
On Sprint weekends, the weekend-points column includes the relevant Sprint points because the objective of that column is to show the total championship impact of the event.
On mobile devices, the table can be swiped horizontally to reveal all available columns without compressing the statistics into unreadably narrow cells.
Why team comparisons are useful in Formula 1
A driver comparison can reveal which teammate is extracting more performance from the same car, but constructor comparisons answer a different question: how competitive is Ferrari as a complete Formula 1 team against its rivals?
That requires considering both cars, qualifying depth, race pace, reliability, championship points and the ability to convert performance into results.
Ferrari may beat another constructor on outright Race Pace while losing in qualifying, or score more championship points despite producing fewer fastest laps. No single statistic can fully describe the competitive order.
Combining official results with representative timing analysis provides a more detailed picture than looking at championship position alone.
Explore more ScuderiaFans Formula 1 statistics
The Ferrari vs F1 Rivals tool is part of the expanding ScuderiaFans Formula 1 Statistics section.
For driver-level Grand Prix analysis, use the F1 Race Pace & Lap Time Comparison to select two drivers and compare their Race Pace, lap-by-lap times and fastest laps from a specific race.
Ferrari fans can also follow the dedicated Charles Leclerc vs Lewis Hamilton head-to-head statistics, which tracks Ferrari’s two drivers across qualifying, race results, championship points, Race Pace and other performance metrics.
For analysis of the Ferrari car and its technical development, visit the Ferrari Technical Analysis section. The full season can also be followed through the Formula 1 schedule and results.
Frequently asked questions
Which Formula 1 teams can Ferrari be compared with?
The 2026 Ferrari vs F1 Rivals tool allows Ferrari to be compared with the other constructors available in the ScuderiaFans database, including Mercedes, McLaren, Red Bull Racing, Williams, Aston Martin, Haas, Alpine, Audi, Racing Bulls and Cadillac.
Who is Ferrari’s closest rival in 2026?
The answer can change during the season and depends on the statistic being considered. The dashboard lets you compare Ferrari separately with each constructor using championship points, race results, qualifying, Team Race Pace and other metrics rather than assuming one rival is closest in every area.
How are Ferrari and Mercedes compared?
Select Mercedes from the rival selector. The dashboard will recalculate the entire page to show Ferrari vs Mercedes championship statistics, head-to-head results, qualifying, Team Race Pace, fastest laps, points progression and race-by-race comparisons.
Can I compare Ferrari with McLaren?
Yes. Select McLaren from the rival selector to see Ferrari vs McLaren statistics across the 2026 season.
Can I compare Ferrari with Red Bull?
Yes. Select Red Bull Racing to compare Ferrari and Red Bull across championship points, qualifying, race results, Team Race Pace, fastest laps and additional team statistics.
What does the Grand Prix points head-to-head mean?
It counts the Grands Prix where Ferrari scored more points than the selected rival in the main race. Sprint points are not included in this particular head-to-head statistic.
Are Sprint points included in the championship comparison?
Yes. Sprint points count towards the Constructors’ Championship and are therefore included in championship totals, average points per round and race-weekend scoring comparisons.
Why does the points gained or lost chart include Sprint results?
That chart measures the total championship impact of each race weekend. On Sprint weekends it therefore includes both Sprint and Grand Prix points.
How is Team Race Pace calculated?
Each driver’s median eligible Race Pace is calculated separately. The available driver-level medians from each constructor are then combined into one team median so that each car has equal influence rather than allowing the driver with more completed laps to dominate the result.
Are Safety Car laps included in Team Race Pace?
Laps substantially affected by Safety Car or Virtual Safety Car conditions are excluded from the underlying Race Pace calculation, together with pit-in laps, pit-out laps, Lap 1 and invalid or unsuitable timing data.
What happens if only one car has usable race data?
The team comparison can retain the available Race Pace sample, but the race is flagged as having a limited sample. This makes it clear that the team figure is based on only one qualifying car rather than a complete two-car dataset.
What is the difference between official fastest laps and Fastest Lap H2H?
Official Grand Prix fastest laps count occasions where a constructor recorded the fastest lap of the entire Formula 1 field. Fastest Lap H2H simply compares Ferrari’s quickest valid lap with the selected rival’s quickest valid lap at each Grand Prix.
What does best-car qualifying mean?
Best-car qualifying compares the highest qualifying position achieved by either Ferrari car with the highest position achieved by either car from the selected rival.
What does a double-points finish mean?
A double-points finish occurs when both cars from the same constructor score points in the Grand Prix.
How often are these Ferrari statistics updated?
The dashboard is updated as new official results, qualifying classifications and race-timing data are imported into the ScuderiaFans statistics database during the 2026 season.
Where can I compare individual Ferrari drivers?
Use the Charles Leclerc vs Lewis Hamilton head-to-head for a season-long Ferrari teammate comparison, or the F1 Race Pace & Lap Time Comparison for individual Grand Prix analysis.
