F1: Final 2024 team-mate qualifying and race head-to-head scores featuring Lewis Hamilton vs George Russell and more | F1 News

There’s no more telling battle in Formula 1 than the one a driver faces against their team-mate and the final scores from the 2024 edition of the 10 head-to-heads through the field certainly make for interesting reading.

Who topped qualifying? Who finished ahead more often in the race? And how many points did each driver ultimately contribute for their team in the lucrative Constructors’ Championship battle? Find out below as we go team-by-team across the full-time pairings from the season just gone…

Grid penalties are discounted when calculating qualifying scores, while no race-day score is awarded if both a team’s cars fail to finish.

Max Verstappen vs Sergio Perez – Red Bull

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Verstappen 23-1 Perez
Sprint: Qualifying: Verstappen 6-0 Perez

RACE
Grand Prix: Verstappen 23-1 Perez
Sprint: Verstappen 6-0 Perez
Points: Verstappen 437-152 Perez

Almost as one-sided a head-to-head as you could get at Red Bull with Max Verstappen absolutely dominant throughout F1’s record-breaking 24-race campaign on the way to his fourth successive world championship.

The only weekend where the world champion was outqualified and outperformed by Perez was the Azerbaijan GP in September, and even then the Mexican didn’t take the race-day ‘score’ after he retired in a last-lap collision with Carlos Sainz. Ultimately, the chasm in results told for Perez who has been replaced by Liam Lawson for 2025.

Lewis Hamilton vs George Russell – Mercedes

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Hamilton 5-19 Russell
Sprint: Hamilton 1-5 Russell

RACE
Grand Prix: Hamilton 9-14* Russell
Sprint: Hamilton 1-5 Russell
Points: Hamilton 223-245 Russell

Arguably the year’s biggest head-to-head surprise came at Mercedes where George Russell consistently outperformed seven-time champion, and record 104-time polesitter, Lewis Hamilton over a single qualifying lap all season.

Such was Russell’s superiority that he wrapped up the Saturday head-to-head as early as September, becoming just the second team-mate to outqualify Hamilton over an F1 season after Nico Rosberg in 2014.

Although Russell won the race-day head-to-head fairly comfortably too, Hamilton’s best form generally came on a Sunday and he actually finished with one more podium than the younger Briton on five (although Russell lost one – a victory to Hamilton at Spa – owing to a disqualification for an underweight car).

*both drivers retired from the Australian GP

Charles Leclerc vs Carlos Sainz – Ferrari

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Leclerc 14-9* Sainz
Sprint: Leclerc 3-3 Sainz

RACE
Grand Prix: Leclerc 14-8* Sainz
Sprint: Leclerc 3-3 Sainz
Points: Leclerc 359-290 Sainz

Charles Leclerc finished on top against Carlos Sainz in their fourth and final season as team-mates before Hamilton’s arrival in the latter’s seat from the new year.

As with the previous three years, Leclerc – who took three of Ferrari’s four poles in 2024 – qualified ahead more frequently, although Sainz narrowed the margin slightly this time as the Spaniard impressively kept his focus and determination all year despite knowing ahead of the campaign that his contract was not being renewed.

Leclerc was also the Ferrari ahead on the road on a Sunday the majority of the time, with more wins (three to two) and podiums (13 to nine) amid his own very-impressive campaign.

*Sainz did not compete in the Saudi Arabian GP due to appendicitis; neither driver finished the Canadian GP

Lando Norris vs Oscar Piastri – McLaren

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Norris 20-4 Piastri
Sprint: Norris 4-2 Piastri

RACE
Grand Prix: Norris 16-8 Piastri
Sprint: Norris 3-3 Piastri
Points: Norris 374-292 Piastri

It was year two of McLaren’s young and hugely-talented driver pairing in tandem, a line-up which took the team to a first constructors’ title in 26 years. As the metrics and final championship standing underlined, Lando Norris remained the team’s lead runner with the Briton comfortably qualifying and finishing ahead of Oscar Piastri most often.

Indeed, while the gaps between the two papaya cars in qualifying – particularly in the season’s early months – were regularly less than 0.2s, Norris was generally the driver on the faster side of that. The Briton started as the lead McLaren in all-but one (Azerbaijan) of the final 16 rounds too.

One area of Piastri’s performance that clearly improved in his second year of F1 was his race management and, taking two wins to Norris’ four, the Australian’s front-running form also complicated the Briton’s Drivers’ Championship pursuit in team orders flashpoints at the Hungaroring and Monza.

Fernando Alonso vs Lance Stroll – Aston Martin

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Alonso 19-5 Stroll
Sprint: Alonso 3-3 Stroll

RACE
Grand Prix: Alonso 17-6* Stroll
Sprint: Alonso 3-3 Stroll
Points: Alonso 70-24 Stroll

Fernando Alonso again finished well clear in the key metrics in his second season at Aston Martin alongside Lance Stroll, although both the qualifying and race head-to-heads had painted a more competitive 8-5 picture at the August summer break.

But as the AMR24 became less competitive and swallowed up by an improving midfield pack, Stroll neither outqualified Alonso for a Grand Prix, nor scored any points, across the season’s closing 11 rounds with the Spaniard finishing in the top 10 on a six further occasions to ensure the team’s fifth-place constructors’ finish was never really under threat.

*Stroll did not start the Sao Paulo GP after spinning out on the formation lap

Esteban Ocon vs Pierre Gasly – Alpine

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Ocon 12-11* Gasly
Sprint: Ocon 2-4 Gasly

RACE
Grand Prix: Ocon 12-10* Gasly
Sprint: Ocon 3-3 Gasly
Points: Ocon 23-42 Gasly

There was very little to again choose between Alpine’s two French drivers in what was also their final year as team-mates. In a turbulent and troubled campaign which started with the once-champion Enstone team slipping to the very back of the grid, Esteban Ocon took an early lead in the head-to-head scores – he was not outqualified in main qualifying for the first five races – before Pierre Gasly started to find his form as the team started to feature in the points.

That turned into bigger hauls for Gasly in the season’s closing weeks, headlined by the team’s relatively season-saving two-three result in Brazil when Ocon took second and his team-mate third.

*Ocon left the team ahead of the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP; Gasly did not start the British GP due to a gearbox problem

Alex Albon vs Logan Sargeant/Franco Colapinto – Williams

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Albon 14-0* Sargeant; Albon 7-2 Colapinto
Sprint: Albon 1-2 Sargeant; Albon 2-1 Colapinto

RACE
Grand Prix: Albon 11-2* Sargeant*; Albon 4-4** Colapinto
Sprint: Albon 1-2 Sargeant; Albon 2-1 Colapinto
Points: Albon 4-0 Sargeant; Albon 8-5 Colapinto

After the surge from last to seventh in the Constructors’ Championship in 2023, Williams experienced a more turbulent season on the track this time around – including a mid-season switch of second driver from September’s Italian GP.

Their experienced lead driver Alex Albon topped the key head-to-heads against both of his 2024 team-mates, although his advantage was far less comfortable, and sometimes not there at all, against rookie call-up Franco Colapinto. That was particularly the case early on in Colapinto’s nine-race cameo, as the Argentine made a stunning start to his F1 career before incidents and accidents overshadowed his final weeks in the car before Sainz’s 2025 arrival.

*Sargeant was withdrawn from qualifying and the race at the Australian GP; Albon and Sargeant both retired from the Canadian GP; **Albon did not start the Sao Paulo GP after crashing in qualifying

Yuki Tsunoda vs Daniel Ricciardo/Liam Lawson – RB

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Tsunoda 12-6 Ricciardo; Tsunoda 6-0 Lawson
Sprint: Tsunoda 1-2 Ricciardo; Tsunoda 1-2 Lawson

RACE
Grand Prix: Tsunoda 8-9* Ricciardo; Tsunoda 4-2 Lawson
Sprint: Tsunoda 1-2; Tsunoda 1-2 Lawson
Points: Tsunoda 22-12 Ricciardo; Tsunoda 8-4 Lawson

The stats at Red Bull’s junior team which Yuki Tsunoda may well feel show he was hard done by to be overlooked by Red Bull’s chiefs as the replacement for Sergio Perez.

After seeing off the eight-time-race-winning Daniel Ricciardo, scoring 10 more points than the Australian across their 18 weekends together in 2024, Tsunoda was not outqualified for a Grand Prix by Liam Lawson and scored four more points than the New Zealander in their subsequent six races in tandem. However, on the flip side, Lawson could point to being within 0.1s of the more experienced Tsunoda on three of those occasions in qualifying, and getting the better of him twice when setting the grid for the Sprint.

*Tsunoda and Ricciardo both retired from the Chinese GP

Nico Hulkenberg vs Kevin Magnussen – Haas

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Hulkenberg 17-5* Magnussen
Sprint: Hulkenberg 3-2* Magnussen

RACE
Grand Prix: Hulkenberg 16-5* Magnussen
Sprint: Hulkenberg 2-3* Magnussen
Points: Hulkenberg 41-16 Magnussen

A Nico Hulkenberg-dominated year at Haas with the German driver again the one most likely to qualify and finish in the top 10. The good news for the team this year was that, unlike 2023 when strong Hulkenberg qualifying performances were regularly undone by the car’s struggles with tyre wear over a race distance, more of those Q3 appearances were converted into points finishes. Indeed Hulkenberg finished in the top-10 on an impressive 10 occasions.

Having known before the summer break that he had lost his seat for 2025 after a disappointing start to the year, Magnussen stuck to his task resolutely and was rewarded in the closing weeks of the year with his best results – finishing seventh in the Austin Sprint, seventh in Mexico and then ninth on his penultimate outing in Qatar.

*Magnussen was absent from the Azerbaijan and Sao Paulo GPs; Neither driver finished the Monaco GP

Valtteri Bottas vs Zhou Guanyu – Sauber

QUALIFYING
Grand Prix: Bottas 21-3 Zhou
Sprint: Bottas 5-1 Zhou

RACE
Grand Prix: Bottas 14-10 Zhou
Sprint: Bottas 3-3 Zhou
Points: Bottas 0-4 Zhou

Third and final seasons at struggling Sauber to largely forget for Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu, with only the latter scoring any points all campaign in the year’s after a fine drive to eighth at the penultimate round in Qatar.

The final championship standings though certainly didn’t reflect the wider narrative of the year at Sauber with Bottas consistently the team’s top performer, especially in qualifying where Zhou didn’t outqualify him for a Grand Prix at all until the season’s 12th round at Silverstone. Ultimately, though, neither were retained for 2025.

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