Team ratings

Team Elo — quali & race

11 active teams · 43,190 quali h2h since 2003 · 39,164 race h2h · driver ratings →

Two parallel team rating systems for the 2026 grid: Quali Elo ranks teams by pairwise head-to-head best-driver qualifying position. Race Elo does the same on best-classified race finish. A team that consistently out-qualifies stronger competition gains more rating than one that beats back-markers; underdog wins move ratings sharply, expected wins barely.

How team Elo differs from driver Elo: drivers have one teammate; teams have ~10 opponents per race. So team Elo runs pairwise: every (team A, team B, race) generates one Elo update. Each team typically sees 10 updates per weekend, hence the lower K-factor (K=10 vs the driver Elo's K=24) — the per-update size is smaller because there are more updates. Same scale=300 for the rating-difference curve, same zero-sum redistribution property: every rating point above 1500 is mirrored below 1500.

Quali Elo

Pairwise team Elo from every qualifying session since 2003. Each race produces ~10 head-to-heads per team (one per opponent), with the better-positioned team's best driver determining the winner. Computed from 43,190 pairwise H2H records. Beating a top team carries more rating than beating a back-marker — same logic as driver Elo, applied to constructors.

#	Team	Rating	Peak	vs grid	H2H n
1	McLaren	2059	2125	+333	4,142
2	Mercedes	2018	2294	+292	3,168
3	Red Bull	1971	2204	+246	3,890
4	Ferrari	1899	2181	+173	4,142
5	RB	1678	1845	-47	3,729
6	Alpine	1611	1845	-114	3,378
7	Sauber	1605	1707	-121	3,581
8	Williams	1588	1919	-137	4,134
9	Haas	1578	1742	-147	1,986
10	Aston Martin	1532	1841	-193	3,379
11	Cadillac	1439	1495	-286	40

Click a row to see that team's race-by-race rating history. vs grid = rating relative to the active grid mean (1725). Pairwise team Elo, K=10 (lower than the driver Elo's K=24 because each race contributes ~10 updates per team), scale=300. Quali sessions only.

Race Elo

Same machinery, but driven by race-day best-classified-finish per team. 39,164 pairwise H2H records. A team with strong race pace but weaker quali pace will sit higher in the race Elo than the quali Elo — and vice versa.

#	Team	Rating	Peak	vs grid	H2H n
1	McLaren	2092	2148	+378	3,815
2	Mercedes	1994	2240	+281	2,973
3	Red Bull	1951	2224	+238	3,648
4	Ferrari	1941	2137	+228	3,854
5	Haas	1626	1645	-87	1,810
6	RB	1608	1798	-106	3,406
7	Williams	1598	1885	-115	3,715
8	Sauber	1555	1669	-158	3,171
9	Alpine	1549	1849	-165	3,073
10	Aston Martin	1493	1856	-220	3,142
11	Cadillac	1440	1500	-273	38

Click a row to see that team's race-by-race rating history. vs grid = rating relative to the active grid mean (1713). Same machinery, race outcomes. DNFs excluded from the per-team best-finish (only classified runners count).

Source · Five Reds team Elo · Computed from FastF1 + Ergast/Jolpica 2003-present