Overview
- Hadjar earned promotion from Racing Bulls to Red Bull at the end of 2025 and has shown strong one-lap speed alongside Max Verstappen this season.
- He admitted early in the year that small operational mistakes — poor race starts, incorrect boost deployment and spins on lap one — repeatedly ruined weekends.
- Since the Canadian Grand Prix the team fixed those issues and improved car reliability, which has produced a run of regular top-six finishes.
- Hadjar told media in early August that Verstappen’s race management is on a “different level,” and he is now focusing on race execution as his main area for improvement.
- Hadjar has out-qualified Verstappen on several occasions but has not yet finished ahead of him in a race where both reached the chequered flag, so his next clear target is to secure his first F1 podium.